Likelihood of infection in patients with presumed sepsis at the time of intensive care unit admission: a cohort study

Critical Care : the Official Journal of the Critical Care Forum
Peter M C Klein KlouwenbergTom van der Poll

Abstract

A clinical suspicion of infection is mandatory for diagnosing sepsis in patients with a systemic inflammatory response syndrome. Yet, the accuracy of categorizing critically ill patients presenting to the intensive care unit (ICU) as being infected or not is unknown. We therefore assessed the likelihood of infection in patients who were treated for sepsis upon admission to the ICU, and quantified the association between plausibility of infection and mortality. We studied a cohort of critically ill patients admitted with clinically suspected sepsis to two tertiary ICUs in the Netherlands between January 2011 and December 2013. The likelihood of infection was categorized as none, possible, probable or definite by post-hoc assessment. We used multivariable competing risks survival analyses to determine the association of the plausibility of infection with mortality. Among 2579 patients treated for sepsis, 13% had a post-hoc infection likelihood of "none", and an additional 30% of only "possible". These percentages were largely similar for different suspected sites of infection. In crude analyses, the likelihood of infection was associated with increased length of stay and complications. In multivariable analysis, patients with an ...Continue Reading

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