Residual Attributable Mortality, a New Concept for Understanding the Value of Antibiotics in Treating Life-Threatening Acute Infections | Zendy

Richard P. Wenzel | Zendy; Chris Gennings | Zendy

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Residual Attributable Mortality, a New Concept for Understanding the Value of Antibiotics in Treating Life-Threatening Acute Infections

Author(s) -

Richard P. Wenzel,

Chris Gennings

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.07

H-Index - 259

eISSN - 1070-6283

pISSN - 0066-4804

DOI - 10.1128/aac.00438-10

Subject(s) - antibiotics , intensive care medicine , medicine , residual , value (mathematics) , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , mathematics , statistics , algorithm

Crude mortality has been a longstanding measure of the outcome of severe acute infections. Nevertheless, it has been recognized that this outcome in populations is the sum of the effect of the patients’ underlying diseases plus the effect of the infections. The term attributable mortality is an

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