The epidemiology of sepsis in patients with malignancy
PA Danai, M Moss, DM Mannino, GS Martin - Chest, 2006 - Elsevier
Study objectives To evaluate the longitudinal epidemiology of sepsis in patients with a
history of cancer and to specifically examine sepsis-related disparities in risk or outcome.
Design Sepsis cases from 1979 through 2001 using a nationally representative sample of
nonfederal acute-care hospitalizations in the United States (the National Hospital Discharge
Survey) integrated with cancer prevalence from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End
Results database. Setting Eight hundred fifty-four million acute-care hospitalizations and 8.9 …
history of cancer and to specifically examine sepsis-related disparities in risk or outcome.
Design Sepsis cases from 1979 through 2001 using a nationally representative sample of
nonfederal acute-care hospitalizations in the United States (the National Hospital Discharge
Survey) integrated with cancer prevalence from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End
Results database. Setting Eight hundred fifty-four million acute-care hospitalizations and 8.9 …