Journal:
:acta medica iranica
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zahra ahmadinejad department of infectious diseases, imam khomeini hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
banafshe dadsetan department of infectious diseases, imam khomeini hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
mohammad jalili department of emergency medicine, imam khomeini hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
abdolreza soudbakhsh department of infectious diseases, imam khomeini hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
mehrnaz rasolinejad department of infectious diseases, imam khomeini hospital, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran.
procalcitonin (pct) is a precursor peptide for the hormone calcitonin and is frequently increased in overt sepsis. the aim of this study was to test diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin among patients with positive systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs) in identifying sepsis. in this cross sectional study, from 563 patients with positive sirs admitted through the emergency department of...