Open AccessIncidence, Risk Factors, and Attributable Mortality of Secondary Infections in the Intensive Care Unit After Admission for Sepsis
Author(s) -
Lonneke A. van Vught,
Peter M. C. Klein Klouwenberg,
Cristian Spitoni,
Brendon P. Scicluna,
Maryse A. Wiewel,
Janneke Horn,
Marcus J. Schultz,
Peter Nürnberg,
Marc J. M. Bonten,
Olaf L. Cremer,
Tom van der Poll
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jama
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.688
H-Index - 680
eISSN - 1538-3598
pISSN - 0098-7484
DOI - 10.1001/jama.2016.2691
Subject(s) - medicine , sepsis , intensive care unit , interquartile range , incidence (geometry) , cohort study , intensive care , cohort , risk factor , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , physics , optics
Sepsis is considered to induce immune suppression, leading to increased susceptibility to secondary infections with associated late mortality.
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