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Prescott, H.C., Liu, V.X. (2017). We Have Good Enough Data to Support Sepsis Performance Measurement. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2017. Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51908-1_38
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