“…The mean patient age ranged from 47 ± 4 to 69 ± 11 years. Ten trials [7,9,11,13,15,16,[26][27][28][29] were multicenter, and 11 trials [10,12,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38] were single center. Eighteen trials [7, 11-13, 15, 16, 26-35, 37, 38] included only patients with septic shock, while 3 trials [9,10,36] included patients with severe sepsis or septic shock, and separate data for the septic shock patients were available.…”