Likelihood of infection in patients with presumed sepsis at the time of intensive care unit admission: a cohort study

Klein Klouwenberg, Peter M. C.; Cremer, Olaf L.; van Vught, Lonneke A.; Ong, David S. Y.; Frencken, Jos F.; Schultz, Marcus J.; Bonten, Marc J.; van der Poll, Tom

doi:10.1186/s13054-015-1035-1

Likelihood of infection in patients with presumed sepsis at the time of intensive care unit admission: a cohort study

Introduction 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 intensive care unit (ICU) as being infected or not is unknown. We therefore ass…