Student or educator? Sign up with your school email and get 6 months of Pro free.
Cited by 292

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 75 of the 75 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

How to use biomarkers of infection or sepsis at the bedside: guide to clinicians

Open access
Póvoa, Pedro, Coelho, Luís, Dal-Pizzol, Felipe, Ferrer, Ricard, Huttner, Angela, Conway Morris, Andrew, Nobre, Vandack, Ramirez, Paula, Rouze, Anahita, Salluh, Jorge, Singer, Mervyn, Sweeney, Daniel A., Torres, Antoni, Waterer, Grant, Kalil, Andre C.·2023·Intensive Care Medicine

Abstract

Sepsis is defined as a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. In this context, biomarkers could be considered as indicators of either infection or dysregulated host response or response to treatment and/or aid clinicians to prognosticate patient risk. More than 250 biomarkers have been identified and evaluated over the last few decades, but no biomarker accurately differentiates between sepsis and sepsis-like syndrome. Published data support the use of biomarkers for pathogen identification, clinical diagnosis, and optimization of antibiotic treatment. In this narrative review, we highlight how clinicians could improve the use of pathogen-specific and of the most used host-response biomarkers, procalcitonin and C-reactive protein, to improve the clinical care of patients with sepsis. Biomarker kinetics are more useful than single values in predicting sepsis, when making the diagnosis and assessing the response to antibiotic therapy. Finally, integrated biomarker-guided algorithms may hold promise to improve both the diagnosis and prognosis of sepsis. Herein, we provide current data on the clinical utility of pathogen-specific and host-response biomarkers, offer guidance on how to optimize their use, and propose the needs for future research.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1007/s00134-022-06956-y

Cites

75 of 75 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

Show all 75 references

Metadata

Authors
Póvoa, P., Coelho, L., Dal-Pizzol, F., Ferrer, R., Huttner, A., Conway Morris, A., Nobre, V., Ramirez, P., Rouze, A., Salluh, J., Singer, M., Sweeney, D. A., Torres, A., Waterer, G., & Kalil, A. C.
Venue
Intensive Care Medicine
Published
2023-01-02
Volume
49
Issue
2
Pages
142-153
ISSN
  • 0342-4642 (ISSN-L)
  • 1432-1238
OpenAlex
W4313424514
Cited by
292
References
75
FWCI
48.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
bronze

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

How to cite

Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.

This page
CoChat. (2026). Citation check: How to use biomarkers of infection or sepsis at the bedside: guide to clinicians. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1007/s00134-022-06956-y
The paper
Póvoa, P., Coelho, L., Dal-Pizzol, F., Ferrer, R., Huttner, A., Conway Morris, A., Nobre, V., Ramirez, P., Rouze, A., Salluh, J., Singer, M., Sweeney, D. A., Torres, A., Waterer, G., & Kalil, A. C. (2023). How to use biomarkers of infection or sepsis at the bedside: guide to clinicians. Intensive Care Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-022-06956-y

Data sources

Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.

Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).

Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.