Untangling Health Trajectories among Patients with Sepsis

Christopher E Cox¹, Nicholas G Wysham^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ 1 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina; and.
² 2 Duke Center for Learning Health Care, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina.

Editorial

Christopher E Cox et al. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2015 Jun.

. 2015 Jun;12(6):796-7.

doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201503-134ED.

Christopher E Cox¹, Nicholas G Wysham^{1

2}

¹ 1 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina; and.
² 2 Duke Center for Learning Health Care, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina.

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Comment on

Post-Acute Care Use and Hospital Readmission after Sepsis.
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