Procalcitonin test demand from the emergency department is growing, necessitating the implementation of strategies to address overuse. Successful interventions must be based on information technology.

"We believe that our findings could be useful to guide the clinical evaluation in the emergency department in different ways . . . procalcitonin level should be evaluated not only on admission, but ...

The most popular data are vital signs, which include such things as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration rate, temperature, oxygen saturation and so forth. Often these data are fed into the EHR ...

§ F test of ANOVA (continuous characteristic) or Wald chi square test (categorical characteristic) of logistic regression model. # Linear polynomial contrasts (continuous characteristic) or ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Sepsis is a life-threatening medical emergency that occurs when an infection causes a chain reaction throughout the body that can lead to the failure of multiple organs in rapid ...

Daily assessment of procalcitonin (PCT), rather than standard care alone, led to patients spending significantly less time on antibiotics cumulatively in the first 28 days (9.8 days vs 10.7 days, ...

Procalcitonin, or PCT, screening on the first day of a patient intensive care unit’s admission appears to be a promising diagnostic tool for identifying sepsis, according to a new study in CHEST.

Hospital patients are at risk of a number of life-threatening complications, especially sepsis—a condition that can kill within hours and contributes to one out of three in-hospital deaths in the U.S.