The diagnostic ability of procalcitonin and interleukin-6 to differentiate infectious from noninfectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome and to predict mortality

Purpose The purpose of the study was to quantify the ability of procalcitonin (PCT) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) to differentiate noninfectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and sepsis and to predict hospital mortality. Materials We recruited consecutively adult patients with SIRS ad...

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Main Authors:	Mat Nor, Mohd Basri, Md Ralib, Azrina, Abdullah, Nor Zamzila, Pickering, John W.
Format:	Article
Language:	en en en
Published:	W B Saunders CO-Elsevier INC, 2016
Subjects:	R Medicine (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/52501/1/52501_The%20diagnostic%20ability.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/52501/2/52501_The%20diagnostic%20ability_SCOPUS.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/52501/3/52501_The%20diagnostic%20ability_WOS.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/52501/ http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0883944116000034
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