Diagnostic characteristics of a clinical screening tool in combination with measuring bedside lactate level in emergency department patients with suspected sepsis

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 853-857

  Singer, Adam J ^a   Taylor, Merry ^a   Domingo, Anna ^a   Ghazipura, Saad ^a   Khorasonchi, Adam ^a   Thode, Henry C ^a   Shapiro, Nathan I ^b  

^a Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; LACTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SEPSIS; TEMPERATURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; TRIAGE;

EID: 84906301565     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12444     Document Type: Article

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