A novel procalcitonin-based score for detecting sepsis among critically ill patients

• Tung-Lin Tsui ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tung-Lin Tsui, Ya-Ting Huang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Institute of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Intensive Care Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Camillian Saint Mary’s Hospital Luodong, Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Camillian Saint Mary’s Hospital Luodong, Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan

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• Ya-Ting Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tung-Lin Tsui, Ya-Ting Huang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Nursing, Camillian Saint Mary’s Hospital Luodong, Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan, Saint Mary’s Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Yilan, Taiwan

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• Wei-Chih Kan,

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

  Affiliations Department of Nephrology, Department of Internal medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, Department of Biological Science and Technology, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Mao-Sheng Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of laboratory medicine, Camillian Saint Mary’s Hospital Luodong, Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan

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• Min-Yu Lai,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, Camillian Saint Mary’s Hospital Luodong, Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan

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• Kwo-Chang Ueng,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Chih-Chung Shiao

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chungyy2001@yahoo.com.tw

  Affiliations Saint Mary’s Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Yilan, Taiwan, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Camillian Saint Mary’s Hospital Luodong, Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-7574

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