Use of prevalence data to study sepsis incidence and mortality in intensive care units

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Division Methods in Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling, Freiburg, Germany. Electronic address: doerken@imbi.uni-freiburg.de.
² Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
³ Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Division Methods in Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling, Freiburg, Germany.

Comment

Sam Doerken et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2018 Mar.

. 2018 Mar;18(3):252.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30081-1.

¹ Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Division Methods in Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling, Freiburg, Germany. Electronic address: doerken@imbi.uni-freiburg.de.
² Department of Statistics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
³ Infection Control Program and WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁴ Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Division Methods in Clinical Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center, University of Freiburg, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; Freiburg Center for Data Analysis and Modeling, Freiburg, Germany.

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Use of prevalence data to study sepsis incidence and mortality in intensive care units - Authors' reply.
Cavalcanti AB, Azevedo LCP, Machado FR. Cavalcanti AB, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2018 Mar;18(3):252-253. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30082-3. Lancet Infect Dis. 2018. PMID: 29485091 No abstract available.

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Machado FR, Cavalcanti AB, Bozza FA, Ferreira EM, Angotti Carrara FS, Sousa JL, Caixeta N, Salomao R, Angus DC, Pontes Azevedo LC; SPREAD Investigators; Latin American Sepsis Institute Network. Machado FR, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 Nov;17(11):1180-1189. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30322-5. Epub 2017 Aug 17. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017. PMID: 28826588