Procalcitonin Is Not a Useful Biomarker of Sepsis

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 320-321

  Talan, David A ^a  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; LACTIC ACID; PROCALCITONIN; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REIMBURSEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; BLOOD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE;

BIOMARKERS; CALCITONIN; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84940037675     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.03.010     Document Type: Note

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