The budget impact of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic stewardship compared to standard of care for patients with suspected sepsis admitted to the intensive care unit in Belgium

• Victoria Madeleine Garnfeldt ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: victoria_madeleine.garnfeldt@contractors.roche.com

  Affiliations Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Gistrup, Denmark, Government, Access & Patient Affairs, Roche Diagnostics Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2862-129X

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• Jean-Louis Vincent,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Intensive Care, Erasme, University Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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• Damien Gruson,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

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• Osvaldo Ulises Garay,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Access Evidence, Roche Diagnostics International Ltd., Rotkreuz, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4836-4247

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• Stefaan Vansieleghem,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hebias, Ronse, Belgium

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• Leonardo Iniguez,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marketing and Medical Excellence, Roche Diagnostics Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

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• Alexander Lefevre

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Government, Access & Patient Affairs, Roche Diagnostics Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

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