Day to Day Change in Procalcitonin (PCT) and Lactate to Predict Sepsis and Hospital Mortality

Prognostic Value of Plasma Tight-Junction Proteins for Sepsis in Emergency Department

“…In accordance with the presented results, Guzman et al previously demonstrated that lactate had an AUC of 0.72 and PCT 0.64 for mortality prediction based on values on admission (38). Similar result was also observed by Mihajlovic et al (39).…”