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| First author | References | Criteria used for diagnosis | Diagnosis on admission as described by the authors (no. of patients) | Period |
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| Muller | [15] | SIRS, sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock criteria | Sepsis, severe sepsis, or septic shock (33) SIRS (68) | September 1996 to June 1997 |
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| Mauri | [18] | ALI/ARDS criteria
SIRS, septic, severely septic or septic shock criteria | ALI/ARDS (21)
Nonseptic (3), SIRS (4), septic (0), severely septic (5), septic shock (9) | January 2005 to October 2006 |
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| Sprong | [19] | Meningococcal disease | meningococcal disease (26) | 1994 to 2004 |
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| Mauri | [20] | Severe sepsis or septic shock criteria | Severe sepsis (18), septic shock (72) | December 2004 to March 2007 |
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de Kruif | [21] | Fever criteria, bacteremia criteria | Febrile patients (211), bacteremia (35) | April 2004 to October 2006, one month follow-up after enrollment |
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| Huttunen | [22] | Blood culture positive for S. aureus, S. pneumoniae, β-hemolytic Streptococcus or E. coli | Bacteremia (132) | June 1999 to February 2004 |
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| Vänskä | [23] | Neutropenic fever and septic chock criteria | Neutropenic fever (100), septic shock (5) | December 2006 to December 2009 |
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| Bastrup-Birk | [24] | SIRS criteria | SIRS (261) | Undefined, median follow up time 873 (range, 0–1458) days |
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Uusitalo-Seppälä | [25] | Suspected infection : Bacterial infection, SIRS, Sepsis and Severe sepsis criteria | Suspected infection (537) : Bacterial infection (67), SIRS (54), Sepsis (308), severe sepsis (49) | 2004 to 2005, 14 months, one year
follow-up after enrollment |
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| Lin | [26] | VAP criteria | VAP (86) | January 2010 to December 2011, 28 days follow-up after enrollment |
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| Kao | [27] | CAP criteria | CAP (61) | January 2009 to December 2009 |
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