Utility of Sepsis Biomarkers and the Infection Probability Score to Discriminate Sepsis and Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome in Standard Care Patients

Reducing Blood Culture Contamination in the Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Quality Improvement Study

(2013) Wesley H. Self et al.   ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE

Revisiting the white blood cell count: immature granulocytes count as a diagnostic marker to discriminate between SIRS and sepsis - a prospective, observational study

(2013) Axel Nierhaus et al.   BMC IMMUNOLOGY

Neutralization of Antimicrobial Substances in New BacT/Alert FA and FN Plus Blood Culture Bottles

(2013) D. Mitteregger et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Procalcitonin as a diagnostic marker for sepsis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2013) Christina Wacker et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Combination Biomarkers to Diagnose Sepsis in the Critically Ill Patient

(2012) Sébastien Gibot et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Serum lactate and procalcitonin measurements in emergency room for the diagnosis and risk-stratification of patients with suspected infection

(2012) Yonathan Freund et al.   BIOMARKERS

Diagnostic utilities of procalcitonin and C-reactive protein for the prediction of bacteremia determined by blood culture

(2012) Seri Jeong et al.   CLINICA CHIMICA ACTA

Predictors of survival in sepsis

(2012) Christoph Lichtenstern et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Antimicrobial Stewardship at a Large Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center: Cost Analysis Before, During, and After a 7-Year Program

(2012) Harold C. Standiford et al.   INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY

Serial and panel analyses of biomarkers do not improve the prediction of bacteremia compared to one procalcitonin measurement

(2012) M. Tromp et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Prevention of adverse drug events and cost savings associated with PharmD interventions in an academic Level I trauma center

(2012) Susan Hamblin et al.   Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Rapid Diagnostic Algorithms as a Screening Tool for Tuberculosis: An Assessor Blinded Cross-Sectional Study

(2012) Franz Ratzinger et al.   PLoS One

Clinical and laboratory variables identifying bacterial infection and bacteraemia in the emergency department

(2012) Patrik Gille-Johnson et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Early diagnostic markers of sepsis after oesophagectomy (including thromboelastography)

(2012) Miroslav Durila et al.   BMC Anesthesiology

Procalcitonin as a Marker for the Detection of Bacteremia and Sepsis in the Emergency Department

(2011) Stefan Riedel et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY

Multiple organ failure in sepsis: prognosis and role of systemic inflammatory response

(2011) Thierry Gustot   Current Opinion in Critical Care

Clinical and economic impact of contaminated blood cultures within the hospital setting

(2011) Y.M. Alahmadi et al.   JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL INFECTION

Early detection of severe sepsis in the emergency room: Diagnostic value of plasma C-reactive protein, procalcitonin, and interleukin-6

(2011) Raija Uusitalo-Seppälä et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Inpatient utilization of blood cultures drawn in an urban ED

(2010) Pedro Roque et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE

C-reactive protein is not a useful indicator for infection in surgical intensive care units

(2010) Domingos Dias Cicarelli et al.   Sao Paulo Medical Journal

The Role of Inflammation in Cholestasis: Clinical and Basic Aspects

(2010) Astrid Kosters et al.   SEMINARS IN LIVER DISEASE

Impact of Blood Cultures Drawn by Phlebotomy on Contamination Rates and Health Care Costs in a Hospital Emergency Department

(2009) R. M. Gander et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

A prospective evaluation of the Infection Probability Score (IPS) in the intensive care unit

(2008) Alvise Martini et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Prevalence and significance of coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from blood cultures in a tertiary hospital

(2008) Sebastiaan J. Van Hal et al.   SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The immunology of sepsis

(2007) S Sriskandan et al.   JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY