Prognostic utility of serum CRP levels in combination with CURB-65 in patients with clinically suspected sepsis: a decision curve analysis.

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Published in BMJ Open on April 28, 2015

Authors

Shungo Yamamoto1, Shin Yamazaki1, Tsunehiro Shimizu2, Taro Takeshima3, Shingo Fukuma4, Yosuke Yamamoto1, Kentaro Tochitani2, Yasuhiro Tsuchido2, Koh Shinohara5, Shunichi Fukuhara4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
2: Department of Infectious Diseases, Kyoto City Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
3: Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Division of Community and Family Medicine, Center for Community Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan.
4: Department of Healthcare Epidemiology, School of Public Health in the Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Center for Innovative Research for Communities and Clinical Excellence (CIRC2LE), Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan.
5: Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.

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