Accuracy of serum procalcitonin for the diagnosis of sepsis in neonates and children with systemic inflammatory syndrome: a meta-analysis - 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; et al. (BMC infectious diseases, 2017)
Keywords: Accuracy; Adults; Age; 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; Inflammation; Libraries; Mathematical analysis; Meta-analysis; Neonates; Patients; Pediatrics; Procalcitonin; Prospective Studies; Proteins; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity analysis; Sensitivity and Specificity; Sepsis; Sepsis - diagnosis; Sepsis - microbiology; Standard deviation; Studies; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome; Procalcitonin; Infant; Sepsis; Biological markers; Child; Meta-analysis