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The international PROGRESS registry of patients with severe sepsis: drotrecogin alfa (activated) use and patient outcomes

Greg Martin1, Frank M Brunkhorst2, Jonathan M Janes3, Konrad Reinhart2, David P Sundin3, Kassandra Garnett4 and Richard Beale5*

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1 Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care, Emory University, 615 Michael Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 30322, USA

2 Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Friedrich Schiller University, Erlanger Allee 101, Jena, 07743, Germany

3 Lilly Research Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Co., Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46285, USA

4 i3 StatProbe, 1001 Winstead Drive, Cary, North Carolina, 27513, USA

5 Intensive Care Unit, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London, SE1 7EH, UK

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Critical Care 2009, 13:R103 doi:10.1186/cc7936

Published: 30 June 2009

Additional files

Additional file 1:

A word file containing a more detailed methodology of the propensity model development and a table (Table S1 in Additional data file 1) demonstrating the balance among baseline characteristics between the two treatment groups achieved in the propensity quartiles.

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