Impact of different consensus definition criteria on sepsis diagnosis in a cohort of critically ill patients—Insights from a new mathematical probabilistic approach to mortality-based validation of sepsis criteria

Background Sepsis-3 definition uses SOFA score to discriminate sepsis from uncomplicated infection, replacing SIRS criteria that were criticized for being inaccurate. Eligibility of sepsis-3 criteria for sepsis diagnosis and the applied validation methodology using mortality as endpoint are topic of...

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Main Authors: Franz-Simon Centner, Jochen J. Schoettler, Anna-Meagan Fairley, Holger A. Lindner, Verena Schneider-Lindner, Christel Weiss, Manfred Thiel, Michael Hagmann, Robert Ehrman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7478755/?tool=EBI