Annals of clinical and laboratory science
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This study reports the predictive value, in septic patients, of septic shock at presentation (SS factor) alone and in combination with multiple markers, using survival of the sepsis episode as the outcome measure. The SS factor correctly predicted the outcome in 53/68 (78%) of patients in this study. ⋯ The four-input algorithm (APII, IL-6, IL-6sR, SS factor) correctly classified 16/18 (89%, Group A) and 14/18 (78%, Group B) of patients in the test subset. The corresponding four-input neural network model (10 iterations) correctly classified 61 to 89% of the 18 patients in the 10 test subsets.