Epidemiology and outcome of severe sepsis and septic shock in intensive care units in mainland China.

INTRODUCTION: Information about sepsis in mainland China remains scarce and incomplete. The purpose of this study was to describe the epidemiology and outcome of severe sepsis and septic shock in mixed ICU in mainland China, as well as the independent predictors of mortality. METHODS: We performed a...

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Main Authors: Jianfang Zhou, Chuanyun Qian, Mingyan Zhao, Xiangyou Yu, Yan Kang, Xiaochun Ma, Yuhang Ai, Yuan Xu, Dexin Liu, Youzhong An, Dawei Wu, Renhua Sun, Shusheng Li, Zhenjie Hu, Xiangyuan Cao, Fachun Zhou, Li Jiang, Jiandong Lin, Enqiang Mao, Tiehe Qin, Zhenyang He, Lihua Zhou, Bin Du, China Critical Care Clinical Trials Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4167333?pdf=render