The LRINEC (Laboratory Risk Indicator for Necrotizing Fasciitis) score: A tool for distinguishing necrotizing fasciitis from other soft tissue infections*

By Chin-Ho Wong, L. Khin, Kien-Seng Heng, K. Tan, C. Low. Critical Care Medicine, 2004

1,416 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery

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In Infectious Diseases

1. Henry F. Chambers
2. M. Malangoni
3. J. Ustin

In Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

1. Henry F. Chambers
2. A. Bisno
3. Dennis L. Stevens
4. Jan V. Hirschmann
5. J. Wade
6. M. Malangoni
7. J. Ustin

In Surgery

1. M. Malangoni
2. J. Ustin

Citations in the corpus

• Necrotizing soft-tissue infection: diagnosis and management. (2007, background): “[9] created a score (laboratory risk indicator for necrotizing fasciitis score) to discriminate between NSTI and nonnecrotizing soft-tissue infection.”
• Necrotizing soft-tissue infections (2011, methodology): “The scoring system that has been most extensively evaluated is the Laboratory Risk Indicator for Necrotizing Fasciitis (85).”
• Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections. (2005, background): “Clinical assessment of the severity of infection is crucial, and several classification schemes and algorithms have been proposed to guide the clinician [1].”