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Toward resolving the challenges of sepsis diagnosis.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Aug 2004
Carrigan Shawn D, Scott George, Tabrizian Maryam
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Sepsis in the United States has an estimated annual healthcare cost of 16.7 billion dollars and leads to 120,000 deaths. Insufficient development in both medical diagnosis and treatment of sepsis has led to continued growth in reported cases of sepsis over the past two decades with little improvement in mortality statistics. Efforts over the last decade to improve diagnosis have unsuccessfully sought to identify...
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