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Variations in infection sites and mortality rates among patients in intensive care units with severe sepsis and septic shock in Japan

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40560-019-0383-3

Published Online: 2019-05-03

Published Print: 2019-12

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Abe, Toshikazu

Ogura, Hiroshi

Kushimoto, Shigeki

Shiraishi, Atsushi

Sugiyama, Takehiro

Deshpande, Gautam A.

Uchida, Masatoshi

Nagata, Isao

Saitoh, Daizoh

Fujishima, Seitaro

Mayumi, Toshihiko

Hifumi, Toru

Shiino, Yasukazu

Nakada, Taka-aki

Tarui, Takehiko

Otomo, Yasuhiro

Okamoto, Kohji

Umemura, Yutaka

Kotani, Joji

Sakamoto, Yuichiro

Sasaki, Junichi

Shiraishi, Shin-ichiro

Takuma, Kiyotsugu

Tsuruta, Ryosuke

Hagiwara, Akiyoshi

Yamakawa, Kazuma

Masuno, Tomohiko

Takeyama, Naoshi

Yamashita, Norio

Ikeda, Hiroto

Ueyama, Masashi

Fujimi, Satoshi

Gando, Satoshi
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Japanese Association for Acute Medicine (2014-01)
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Article History

Received: 14 January 2019

Accepted: 16 April 2019

First Online: 3 May 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The ethics committees at all institutions that participated in the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine (JAAM) study group reviewed and approved the study protocol. These committees waived the need for written informed consent from the study participants, given the retrospective and anonymized nature of the study. Institutional Review Board approval (No. 014–0306) was granted by Hokkaido University, the lead institution for FORECAST. All methods were implemented in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.

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