Correlation of clinical sepsis definitions with microbiological characteristics in patients admitted through a sepsis alert system; a prospective cohort study

• Main Authors: David Yu (Author), David Unger (Author), Christian Unge (Author), Åsa Parke (Author), Jonas Sundén-Cullberg (Author), Kristoffer Strålin (Author), Volkan Özenci (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Sepsis was recently redefined as a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. With this redefinition (Sepsis-3), clinical and microbiological characteristics of patients with sepsis may differ from the patients fulfilling the previous...