Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: The Procalcitonin and Survival Study - A Multicentre Single Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial to Investigate if Treatment Guided by Daily Procalcitonin Measurements Can Reduce Mortality in the Inten
Brief Summary: This is a randomised, single blinded, multicentre trial to evaluate whether daily procalcitonin (PCT) measurements and immediate diagnostic and therapeutic responses to abnormal values and day-to-day changes can reduce the mortality of critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).