Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Mar 2006
Multicenter StudyAn evaluation of systemic inflammatory response syndrome signs in the Sepsis Occurrence In Acutely Ill Patients (SOAP) study.
To define the frequency and prognostic implications of SIRS criteria in critically ill patients hospitalized in European ICUs. ⋯ Although common in the ICU, SIRS has prognostic importance in predicting infections, severity of disease, organ failure and outcome.