Infection Probability Score (IPS): A method to help assess the probability of infection in critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2579-2584

  Bota, Daliana Peres ^a   Mélot, Christian ^a   Ferreira, Flavio Lopes ^a   Vincent, Jean Louis ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body temperature; C reactive protein; Organ failure; Predictive value; Sepsis; White blood cell count

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY TEMPERATURE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0345538684     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000094223.92746.56     Document Type: Article

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