Serum lactate cut-offs as a risk stratification tool for in-hospital adverse outcomes in emergency department patients screened for suspected sepsis - Shetty, Amith L; Thompson, Kelly; Byth, Karen; Macaskill, Petra; Green, Malcolm; Fullick, Mary; Lander, Harvey; Iredell, Jonathan (BMJ open, 2018)
Keywords: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Algorithms; Anti-Bacterial Agents - therapeutic use; Antibiotics; Biomarkers - blood; Clinical Protocols; Coma; Decision Support Techniques; Emergency Medicine; Emergency Service, Hospital - standards; Female; Fluid Therapy - methods; Hospital Mortality; Humans; Infections; Intensive care; Lactic Acid - blood; Male; Medical prognosis; Middle Aged; Mortality; New South Wales - epidemiology; Patients; Public health; Quality Improvement; Retrospective Studies; Sepsis; Sepsis - blood; Sepsis - diagnosis; Sepsis - mortality; Sepsis - therapy; Systematic review; Time Factors; Treatment Outcome; Values; Australia; Risk (D012306); Lactic acid (D019344); Mortality (D009026); Multiphasic screening (D009098); Sepsis (D018805)