Diagnosis and follow-up of infections in intensive care patients: Value of C-reactive protein compared with other clinical and biological variables

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 529-535

  Reny, Jean Luc ^a   Vuagnat, Albert ^c   Ract, Catherine ^a   Benoit, Marie Odile ^b   Safar, Michel ^a   Fagon, Jean Yves ^a  

^a HÔPITAL BROUSSAIS   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

C reactive proteins; Diagnostic test; Fever; Infection; Inflammation; Intensive care unit; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 0036191395     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200203000-00006     Document Type: Article

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