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Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine 1/2004

01.01.2004 | Editorial

The epidemiologist in the intensive care unit

verfasst von: Gordon D. Rubenfeld, Jason D. Christie

Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine | Ausgabe 1/2004

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Clinical epidemiology involves answering questions about the diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and burden of human diseases. There are many population-based studies on the incidence and outcome of cardiovascular, traumatic, infectious, and neoplastic diseases. In the United States the National Center for Health Statistics maintains data on the incidence and mortality of hundreds of diseases [1]. Similarly, the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute maintains high-quality data on cancer incidence and survival from selected areas across the United States [2]. Unfortunately, similar data are not readily available for the critical care syndromes, acute lung injury (ALI), sepsis, or multiple organ failure. There are good reasons for this lack of data—doing epidemiology in the ICU is hard. …
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Metadaten
Titel
The epidemiologist in the intensive care unit
verfasst von
Gordon D. Rubenfeld
Jason D. Christie
Publikationsdatum
01.01.2004
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Intensive Care Medicine / Ausgabe 1/2004
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-003-2081-8

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