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Presence of infection in patients with presumed sepsis at the time of ICU admission

Authors: PMCK Klouwenberg, OL Cremer, LA van Vught, DSY Ong, JF Frencken, MJ Schultz, MJ Bonten, T van der Poll

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 2/2014

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A clinical suspicion of infection is mandatory for diagnosing sepsis in patients with a systemic inflammatory response syndrome. Yet the accuracy of categorizing critically ill patients presenting to the ICU as being infected or not is unknown. We therefore assessed the likelihood of infection in patients who were treated for sepsis upon admission to the ICU, and quantified the association between plausibility of infection and mortality. …

Title: Presence of infection in patients with presumed sepsis at the time of ICU admission
Authors: PMCK Klouwenberg
OL Cremer
LA van Vught
DSY Ong
JF Frencken
MJ Schultz
MJ Bonten
T van der Poll
Publication date: 01-04-2014
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 2/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc14066

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