On 2014 Jun 18, Ryan Radecki commented:

Post-publication commentary:

"SIRS is Rarely Sepsis"

You already knew this – but that hasn’t stopped your hospital from purchasing the “Sepsis Alert” tool for your electronic health record. Now, you and your nurses get blasted with computerized interruptions every time a patient is tachycardic and has an elevated WBC count. And, you ignore it – because it’s 1) wrong, or 2) you placed a central line and admitted the patient to the ICU half an hour ago....

http://www.emlitofnote.com/2014/06/sirs-is-rarely-sepsis.html

On 2014 Jun 18, Ryan Radecki commented:

Post-publication commentary:

"SIRS is Rarely Sepsis"

You already knew this – but that hasn’t stopped your hospital from purchasing the “Sepsis Alert” tool for your electronic health record. Now, you and your nurses get blasted with computerized interruptions every time a patient is tachycardic and has an elevated WBC count. And, you ignore it – because it’s 1) wrong, or 2) you placed a central line and admitted the patient to the ICU half an hour ago....

http://www.emlitofnote.com/2014/06/sirs-is-rarely-sepsis.html