Predisposition, Insult/Infection, Response and Organ Dysfunction (PIRO): A Pilot Clinical Staging System for Hospital Mortality in Patients with Infection

• Teresa Cardoso ,

  * E-mail: cardoso.tmc@gmail.com

  Affiliation Intensive Care Unit, Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente, Hospital de Santo António, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Armando Teixeira-Pinto,

  Affiliation Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences, Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal; and Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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• Pedro Pereira Rodrigues,

  Affiliation Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences, Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Irene Aragão,

  Affiliation Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente, Hospital de Santo António, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Altamiro Costa-Pereira,

  Affiliation Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences, Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• António E. Sarmento

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital de São João, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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