Skip to main content
Article

Defining Pediatric Sepsis

Luregn J. SchlapbachFaculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, AustraliaNiranjan KissoonBritish Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2018en
ABI

Abstract

This Viewpoint discusses the difficulties in applying the definitions of sepsis and the considerable discrepancies in applying definitions of pediatric sepsis, leading to a large variation in incidence estimates when comparing clinical, administrative, and research data.

Identifiers

Citations and references

Cited by 20 references