Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Severe sepsis epidemiology: sampling, selection, and society. | Critical Care August 2004 Vol 8 No 4 Linde-Zwirble and Angus Commentary Severe sepsis epidemiology sampling selection and society Walter T Linde-Zwirble1 and Derek C Angus2 Affiliate Faculty The CRISMA Laboratory Clinical Research Investigation and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA and Vice-President Chief Scientific Officer Health Process Management LLC Doylestown PA USA. 2Director The CRISMA Laboratory Clinical Research Investigation and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness Vice Chair for Research and Professor Department of Critical Care Medicine School of Medicine University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA and Professor Department of Health Policy and Management Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA USA Corresponding author Walter T Linde-Zwirble wlindezwirble@ Published online 9 July 2004 This article is online at http content 8Z4 222 2004 BioMed Central Ltd Critical Care 2004 8 222-226 DOI cc2917 Related to Research by Silva et al. Flaatten and van Gestel et al. see page 292 Abstract Three new articles in Critical Care add to an expanding body of information on the epidemiology of severe sepsis. Although there have been a range of approaches to estimate the incidence of severe sepsis most studies report severe sepsis in about 10 4 of ICU patients with a population incidence of 1 cases per 1000. Importantly the availability of ICU services may well determine the number of treated cases of severe sepsis and it seems clear that these studies are reporting the treated incidence not the incidence of severe sepsis. In the future we must focus on whether all severe sepsis should be treated and consequently what level of ICU services is optimal. Keywords epidemiology prevalence sepsis syndrome septicemia severe sepsis In 1991 a consensus of international experts was reached that defined the syndrome of severe sepsis as the presence of infection a systemic inflammatory
