The inability to walk unassisted at hospital admission as a valuable triage tool to predict hospital mortality in Rwandese patients with suspected infection

• Arthur Kwizera,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

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• Olivier Urayeneza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Gitwe Hospital and Gitwe School of Medicine, Gitwe, Rwanda, Department of Surgery, California Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

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• Pierre Mujyarugamba,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gitwe Hospital and Gitwe School of Medicine, Gitwe, Rwanda

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• Jens Meier,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Kepler University Hospital and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

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• Andrew J. Patterson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Lori Harmon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Society of Critical Care Medicine on behalf of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, Mount Prospect, IL, United States of America

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• Joseph C. Farmer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, United States of America

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• Martin W. Dünser ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Martin.Duenser@kepleruniklinikum.at

  Affiliation Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Kepler University Hospital and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6406-0307

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• for the “Sepsis in Resource-Limited Nations” Task Force of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign

  ¶The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

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