Intensive Care Infection Score – A new approach to distinguish between infectious and noninfectious processes in intensive care and medicosurgical patients

Journal of International Medical Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 435-451

  Weimann, Karin ^a   Zimmermann, Mathias ^a   Spies, Claudia D ^a   Wernecke, Klaus Dieter ^a,b   Vicherek, Oldrich ^a   Nachtigall, Irit ^a   Tafelski, Sascha ^a   Weimann, Andreas ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b SOSTANA GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

antibiotic therapy guidance; infection score; Intensive care unit (ICU); postoperative patients; systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE INFECTION SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; ADOLESCENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOMARKERS; CRITICAL CARE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930401671     PISSN: 03000605     EISSN: 14732300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0300060514557711     Document Type: Article

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