Assessment of disease-severity scoring systems for patients with sepsis in general internal medicine departments
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Assessment of disease-severity scoring systems for patients with sepsis in general internal medicine departments
INTRODUCTION Due to the increasing burden on hospital systems, most elderly patients with non-surgical sepsis are admitted to general internal medicine departments. Disease-severity scoring systems are used for stratification of patients for utilization management, performance assessment, and clinical research. Some widely used scoring systems for septic patients are inappropriate when rating n...
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Care
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/cc10102