Identification of patients with sepsis is a difficult task. Until now, the Systemic
Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) criteria have been recommended to identify patients
with significant infection. However, the SIRS criteria have been shown to have low
validity, and the need for improvement has been known for some time [
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Publication history
Published online: September 15, 2016
Accepted:
September 7,
2016
Received in revised form:
September 2,
2016
Received:
August 8,
2016
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