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December 13th, 2009
Infection and the ICU: Outcome Predictable, but Important
If you enrolled over 14,000 ICU patients into a study on a single day, and then did follow-up, what would you find regarding the relationship of infection to the outcomes of ICU stay and mortality? Just such a study was published in JAMA last week, and here are the not-so-stunning conclusions: Infections are common in patients in […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
Contributing Editor
NEJM Journal Watch
Infectious Diseases
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