2023
DOI: 10.37201/req/099.2023
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Diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin for bacteremia in the emergency department: a systematic review

Agustín Julián-Jiménez,
Darío Eduardo García,
Graciela Merinos-Sánchez
et al.

Abstract: Introduction. Obtaining blood cultures (HC) is performed in 15% of the patients treated with suspicion of infection in the Hospital Emergency Services (ED) with a variable diagnostic yield (2-20%). The 30-day mortality of patients with bacteremia is two or three times higher than the rest with the same process. Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker that has been used as a tool to help predict bacteremia in HEDs. The main objective of this systematic review is to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of PCT in predi… Show more

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