Physician agreement on the diagnosis of sepsis in the intensive care unit: estimation of concordance and analysis of underlying factors in a multicenter cohort

• Published in: Journal of intensive care Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 13 - 17
• Main Authors: Lopansri, Bert K., Miller III, Russell R., Burke, John P., Levy, Mitchell, Opal, Steven, Rothman, Richard E., D’Alessio, Franco R., Sidhaye, Venkataramana K., Balk, Robert, Greenberg, Jared A., Yoder, Mark, Patel, Gourang P., Gilbert, Emily, Afshar, Majid, Parada, Jorge P., Martin, Greg S., Esper, Annette M., Kempker, Jordan A., Narasimhan, Mangala, Tsegaye, Adey, Hahn, Stella, Mayo, Paul, McHugh, Leo, Rapisarda, Antony, Sampson, Dayle, Brandon, Roslyn A., Seldon, Therese A., Yager, Thomas D., Brandon, Richard B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 21.02.2019; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Antibiotics; Critical care; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Health aspects; Hospitals; Infection; Infections; Intensive care; Inter-observer agreement; Machine learning; Medical diagnosis; Mortality; Patients; Pediatrics; Physicians; Pneumonia; Sepsis; Ventilators; Sepsis; Intensive care; Diagnosis; Inter-observer agreement

Differentiating sepsis from the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in critical care patients is challenging, especially before serious organ damage is evident, and with variable clinical presentations of patients and variable training and experience of attending physicians. Our objective...