Low-dose corticosteroid treatment and mortality in refractory abdominal septic shock after emergency laparotomy.

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Published in Ann Intensive Care on October 29, 2015

Authors

Takashi Tagami1,2, Hiroki Matsui3, Kiyohide Fushimi4, Hideo Yasunaga5

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8555, Japan. t-tagami@nms.ac.jp.
2: Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School Tama Nagayama Hospital, Tokyo, 206-8512, Japan. t-tagami@nms.ac.jp.
3: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8555, Japan. ptmatsui@gmail.com.
4: Department of Health Informatics and Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan. kfushimi.hci@tmd.ac.jp.
5: Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Economics, School of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8555, Japan. yasunagah-tky@umin.ac.jp.

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