Declining case fatality rates for severe sepsis: good data bring good news with ambiguous implications

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine and Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor2Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
² Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Laboratory, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania4Associate Editor, JAMA.

Editorial

Theodore J Iwashyna et al. JAMA. 2014.

. 2014 Apr 2;311(13):1295-7.

doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.2639.

¹ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine and Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor2Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
² Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Laboratory, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania4Associate Editor, JAMA.

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Comment on

Mortality related to severe sepsis and septic shock among critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand, 2000-2012.
Kaukonen KM, Bailey M, Suzuki S, Pilcher D, Bellomo R. Kaukonen KM, et al. JAMA. 2014 Apr 2;311(13):1308-16. doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.2637. JAMA. 2014. PMID: 24638143