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This study received no financial support. The promoter of this study was the Infectious Disease Group of the Spanish Emergency Medicine Society. This group received financial support from Merck, Tedec-Meiji, Thermo Fisher, ViroGates and GSK in the last year to organise conferences and group meetings. None of the authors has received any financial compensation.
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Diaz-Honrubia, AjAuthorA bacteraemia risk prediction model: development and validation in an emergency medicine population
Publicated to:Infection. 50 (1): 203-221 - 2022-01-01 50(1), DOI: 10.1007/s15010-021-01686-7
Authors: Julian-Jimenez, Agustin; Gonzalez del Castillo, Juan; Garcia-Lamberechts, Eric Jorge; Huarte Sanz, Itziar; Navarro Bustos, Carmen; Rubio Diaz, Rafael; Guardiola Tey, Josep Maria; Llopis-Roca, Ferran; Pinera Salmeron, Pascual; de Martin-Ortiz de Zarate, Mikel; Alvarez-Manzanares, Jesus; Gamazo-Del Rio, Julio Javier; Alvarez Alonso, Marta; Mora Ordonez, Begona; alvarez Lopez, Oscar; Ortega Romero, Maria del Mar; Sousa Reviriego, Maria del Mar; Perales Pardo, Ramon; Villena Garcia del Real, Henrique; Ferreras Amez, Jose Maria; Gonzalez Martinez, Felix; Martin-Sanchez, Francisco Javier; Beneyto Martin, Pedro; Candel Gonzalez, Francisco Javier; Diaz-Honrubia, Antonio Jesus
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Objective Design a risk model to predict bacteraemia in patients attended in emergency departments (ED) for an episode of infection. Methods This was a national, prospective, multicentre, observational cohort study of blood cultures (BC) collected from adult patients (>= 18 years) attended in 71 Spanish EDs from October 1 2019 to March 31, 2020. Variables with a p value < 0.05 were introduced in the univariate analysis together with those of clinical significance. The final selection of variables for the scoring scale was made by logistic regression with selection by introduction. The results obtained were internally validated by dividing the sample in a derivation and a validation cohort. Results A total of 4,439 infectious episodes were included. Of these, 899 (20.25%) were considered as true bacteraemia. A predictive model for bacteraemia was defined with seven variables according to the Bacteraemia Prediction Model of the INFURG-SEMES group (MPB-INFURG-SEMES). The model achieved an area under the curve-receiver operating curve of 0.924 (CI 95%:0.914-0.934) in the derivation cohort, and 0.926 (CI 95%: 0.910-0.942) in the validation cohort. Patients were then split into ten risk categories, and had the following rates of risk: 0.2%(0 points), 0.4%(1 point), 0.9%(2 points), 1.8%(3 points), 4.7%(4 points), 19.1% (5 points), 39.1% (6 points), 56.8% (7 points), 71.1% (8 points), 82.7% (9 points) and 90.1% (10 points). Findings were similar in the validation cohort. The cut-off point of five points provided the best precision with a sensitivity of 95.94%, specificity of 76.28%, positive predictive value of 53.63% and negative predictive value of 98.50%. Conclusion The MPB-INFURG-SEMES model may be useful for the stratification of risk of bacteraemia in adult patients with infection in EDs, together with clinical judgement and other variables independent of the process and the patient.
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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel
The work has been published in the journal Infection due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2022, it was in position 15/96, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Infectious Diseases.
From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.98. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)
This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:
- Weighted Average of Normalized Impact by the Scopus agency: 1.79 (source consulted: FECYT Feb 2024)
- Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 5.91 (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)
Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-06, the following number of citations:
- WoS: 18
- Scopus: 17
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors
This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: United States of America.
There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: Last Author (DIAZ HONRUBIA, ANTONIO JESUS).