Archive for October 2018
Modeling Improved Patient Management and Hospital Savings with SeptiCyte™ LAB in the Diagnosis of Sepsis at ICU Admission
Background: The ability to accurately diagnose sepsis at ICU admission is key to effective clinical management, patient safety, and efficient hospital resource utilization. Most tests used for sepsis diagnosis, including pathogen detection and host-based biomarker approaches, are lacking in either sensitivity or specificity, resulting in a clinical assumption of sepsis, patient overtreatment with antimicrobials, and…
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