Exploring vulnerabilities to sepsis in Canada

Affiliations

¹ Critical Care - Global Child Health, Department of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, 4480 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3V4, Canada. nkissoon@cw.bc.ca.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Editorial

Niranjan Kissoon et al. Can J Anaesth. 2020 Apr.

. 2020 Apr;67(4):399-402.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-019-01537-y. Epub 2019 Nov 25.

¹ Critical Care - Global Child Health, Department of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, 4480 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3V4, Canada. nkissoon@cw.bc.ca.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology & Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Socio-demographic characteristics associated with hospitalization for sepsis among adults in Canada: a Census-linked cohort study.
Hennessy DA, Soo A, Niven DJ, Jolley RJ, Posadas-Calleja J, Stelfox HT, Doig CJ. Hennessy DA, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2020 Apr;67(4):408-420. doi: 10.1007/s12630-019-01536-z. Epub 2019 Dec 2. Can J Anaesth. 2020. PMID: 31792835 English.

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