Score for Predicting Bacteremia in Hospitalized Patients

Maximum body temperature

Are you expecting the patient to live at least 6 months?

Estimated life expectancy

Does the patient have chills?

Does the patient have a history of intravenous drug abuse?

Does the patient show rebound tenderness, guarding or moderate-to-severe tenderness on physical examination of the abdomen?

• coma or brain death?

• bowel perforation?

• multiple trauma?

• severe burns?

• cardiopulmonary arrest within 24 hours?

• cardiac transplantation?

• bone marrow transplantation?

• severe pancreatitis?

• acute respiratory distress syndrome?

• hepatic failure?