Initial disease severity and quality of care of emergency department sepsis patients who are older or younger than 70 years of age.

Due to atypical symptom presentation older patients are more prone to delayed sepsis recognition. We investigated whether initial disease severity before emergency department (ED) treatment (including treatable acute organ dysfunction), quality of ED sepsis care and the impact on mortality was diffe...

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Main Authors: Mats Warmerdam, Frank Stolwijk, Anjelica Boogert, Meera Sharma, Lisa Tetteroo, Jacinta Lucke, Simon Mooijaart, Annemieke Ansems, Laura Esteve Cuevas, Douwe Rijpsma, Bas de Groot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5612649?pdf=render