Initial disease severity and quality of care of emergency department sepsis patients who are older or younger than 70 years of age

Mats Warmerdam; Frank Stolwijk; Anjelica Boogert; Meera Sharma; Lisa Tetteroo; Jacinta Lucke; Simon Mooijaart; Annemieke Ansems; Laura Esteve Cuevas; Douwe Rijpsma; Bas de Groot

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185214

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Initial disease severity and quality of care of emergency department sepsis patients who are older or younger than 70 years of age

Mats Warmerdam ,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: m.i.warmerdam.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl

Affiliation Emergency Department, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7540-944X

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Frank Stolwijk,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Emergency Department, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
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Anjelica Boogert,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Emergency Department, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
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Meera Sharma,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Emergency Department, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
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Lisa Tetteroo,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Emergency Department, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
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Jacinta Lucke,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergency Department, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
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Simon Mooijaart,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands & Institute for Evidence-based Medicine in Old Age | IEMO, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Annemieke Ansems,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Emergency Department, Albert Schweitzer Ziekenhuis, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
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Laura Esteve Cuevas,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Emergency Department, Albert Schweitzer Ziekenhuis, Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
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Douwe Rijpsma,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Emergency Department, Rijnstate Ziekenhuis, Arnhem, Gelderland, the Netherlands
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Bas de Groot

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Emergency Department, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands
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Initial disease severity and quality of care of emergency department sepsis patients who are older or younger than 70 years of age

Mats Warmerdam,
Frank Stolwijk,
Anjelica Boogert,
Meera Sharma,
Lisa Tetteroo,
Jacinta Lucke,
Simon Mooijaart,
Annemieke Ansems,
Laura Esteve Cuevas,
Douwe Rijpsma

Published: September 25, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185214

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