Accuracy of procalcitonin for sepsis diagnosis in critically ill patients: systematic review and meta-analysis.

By B. Tang, G. Eslick, J. Craig, A. McLean. Lancet. Infectious Diseases (Print), 2007

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Subfields: Epidemiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery

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In Epidemiology

1. Jean-Louis Vincent
2. Mitchell M. Levy
3. Derek C. Angus
4. A. Rhodes
5. C. Pierrakos
6. R. Moreno
7. Djillali Annane
8. C. Deutschman

In Surgery

1. Jean-Louis Vincent
2. R. Moreno

Citations in the corpus

• Sepsis biomarkers: a review (2010, background): “although its value has also been challenged [15].”
• Tokyo Guidelines 2018: diagnostic criteria and severity grading of acute cholecystitis (with videos) (2018, background): “(Level C) Although systematic reviews of the value of PCT for the diagnosis and severity grading of sepsis have been published [18, 19], a meta-analysis has found that inconsistencies in study design mean that it is not helpful in distinguishing between sepsis and non-sepsis [20].”
• Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock, 2012 (2013, background): “This suggestion is predicated on the preponderance of the published literature relating to the use of procalcitonin as a tool to discontinue unnecessary antimicrobials [58, 83].”