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October 29, 2010Critical Care694 citationsOpen Access

Lymphocytopenia and neutrophil-lymphocyte count ratio predict bacteremia better than conventional infection markers in an emergency care unit

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CJCornelis PC de JagerPWPaul TL van WijkRMRejiv B. Mathoera

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In an emergency care setting, both lymphocytopenia and NLCR are better predictors of bacteremia than routine parameters like CRP level, WBC count and neutrophil count. Attention to these markers is easy to integrate in daily practice and without extra costs.

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Jager et al. (2010) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69de9183210a0977fce94b4ehttps://doi.org/10.1186/cc9309
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