Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Criteria in Defining Severe Sepsis
Open Access
- 23 April 2015
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 372 (17), 1629-1638
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1415236
Abstract
The consensus definition of severe sepsis requires suspected or proven infection, organ failure, and signs that meet two or more criteria for the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). We aimed to test the sensitivity, face validity, and construct validity of this approach.Keywords
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