TY - JOUR
T1 - Performance enhancement of procalcitonin by high-sensitivity C-reactive protein at the optimal cutoff in predicting bacteremia in emergency department adult patients
AU - Kok, Victor C.
AU - Lin, Chiung Tsung
AU - Yeh, Chao Bin
AU - Yang, Ching Cheng
AU - Horng, Jorng Tzong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Medisinsk Fysiologisk Forenings Forlag (MFFF).
PY - 2019/2/17
Y1 - 2019/2/17
N2 - Pathogenic bacteremia portends a high mortality risk in adult patients admitted to an Emergency Department (ED). This study aims to investigate the effect of adding high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) to procalcitonin (PCT) and lactate in predicting bacteremia, Gram-negative (GNB) and Gram-positive bacteremia (GPB), using the optimal cutoff derived from the receiver operating characteristics analysis. We evaluated the diagnostic measures, including the positive-test likelihood (LR+), the negative-test likelihood (LR−), and the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) using a single-center retrospective analysis design. This Standards for Reporting Diagnostic-compliant study comprised 886 consecutive adults who were admitted to the ED in 2010; to this cohort, a 22.2% prevalence of true bacteremia was subsequently confirmed. At the cutoff of 3.9 μg/L, PCT had a DOR of 5.3 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 3.76–7.61) and LR + of 2.8 (95% CI: 2.3–3.4) in predicting overall bacteremia. Elevated PCT and lactate (cutoff at 2 mmol/L), increased the DOR and LR + to 6.3 (95% CI: 4.27–9.29) and 4.0 (95% CI: 3.1–5.2). The DOR and LR + were further improved to 7.1 (95% CI: 4.2–11.95) and 5.6 (95% CI: 3.7–8.6), respectively, when hs-CRP at the cutoff of 1238 nmol/L was added to PCT plus lactate. High-sensitivity CRP at the cutoff of 1,255 nmol/L can enhance the discriminative power raising DOR and LR + values for GPB. The elevation of hs-CRP at the optimal cutoff might improve the diagnostic performance to predict unspecified bacteremia and GPB, but not GNB.
AB - Pathogenic bacteremia portends a high mortality risk in adult patients admitted to an Emergency Department (ED). This study aims to investigate the effect of adding high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) to procalcitonin (PCT) and lactate in predicting bacteremia, Gram-negative (GNB) and Gram-positive bacteremia (GPB), using the optimal cutoff derived from the receiver operating characteristics analysis. We evaluated the diagnostic measures, including the positive-test likelihood (LR+), the negative-test likelihood (LR−), and the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) using a single-center retrospective analysis design. This Standards for Reporting Diagnostic-compliant study comprised 886 consecutive adults who were admitted to the ED in 2010; to this cohort, a 22.2% prevalence of true bacteremia was subsequently confirmed. At the cutoff of 3.9 μg/L, PCT had a DOR of 5.3 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 3.76–7.61) and LR + of 2.8 (95% CI: 2.3–3.4) in predicting overall bacteremia. Elevated PCT and lactate (cutoff at 2 mmol/L), increased the DOR and LR + to 6.3 (95% CI: 4.27–9.29) and 4.0 (95% CI: 3.1–5.2). The DOR and LR + were further improved to 7.1 (95% CI: 4.2–11.95) and 5.6 (95% CI: 3.7–8.6), respectively, when hs-CRP at the cutoff of 1238 nmol/L was added to PCT plus lactate. High-sensitivity CRP at the cutoff of 1,255 nmol/L can enhance the discriminative power raising DOR and LR + values for GPB. The elevation of hs-CRP at the optimal cutoff might improve the diagnostic performance to predict unspecified bacteremia and GPB, but not GNB.
KW - bacteremia
KW - diagnostic performance
KW - emergency department
KW - high-sensitivity C-reactive protein
KW - lactate
KW - Procalcitonin
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U2 - 10.1080/00365513.2018.1550808
DO - 10.1080/00365513.2018.1550808
M3 - 期刊論文
C2 - 30628465
AN - SCOPUS:85059900921
SN - 0036-5513
VL - 79
SP - 25
EP - 31
JO - Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
JF - Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation
IS - 1-2
ER -