Accuracy of serum procalcitonin for the diagnosis of sepsis in neonates and children with systemic inflammatory syndrome: a meta-analysis

Background A number of biomarkers have been studied for the diagnosis of sepsis in paediatrics, but no gold standard has been identified. Procalcitonin (PCT) was demonstrated to be an accurate biomarker for the diagnosis of sepsis in adults and showed to be promising in paediatrics. Our study review...

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Published in:	BMC infectious diseases Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 302 - 12
Main Authors:	Pontrelli, Giuseppe, De Crescenzo, Franco, Buzzetti, Roberto, Jenkner, Alessandro, Balduzzi, Sara, Calò Carducci, Francesca, Amodio, Donato, De Luca, Maia, Chiurchiù, Sara, Davies, Elin Haf, Copponi, Giorgia, Simonetti, Alessandra, Ferretti, Elena, Di Franco, Valeria, Rasi, Virginia, Della Corte, Martina, Gramatica, Luca, Ciabattini, Marco, Livadiotti, Susanna, Rossi, Paolo
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 24.04.2017 Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Accuracy Adults Age Bacterial and fungal diseases Bacterial infections Biomarkers Biomarkers - blood Bivariate analysis Calcitonin - blood Child Child, Preschool Children Confidence intervals Cytokines Data processing Diagnosis Diagnostic systems Heart rate Heterogeneity Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Infections Infectious Diseases Inflammation Internal Medicine Libraries Mathematical analysis Medical Microbiology Medicine Medicine & Public Health Meta-analysis Neonates Parasitology Patients Pediatrics Procalcitonin Prospective Studies Proteins Reproducibility of Results Research Article Sensitivity analysis Sensitivity and Specificity Sepsis Sepsis - diagnosis Sepsis - microbiology Standard deviation Studies Systemic inflammatory response syndrome Tropical Medicine Systemic inflammatory response syndrome Procalcitonin Sepsis Infant Biological markers Child Meta-analysis
ISSN:	1471-2334, 1471-2334
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