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Implementation of the Phoenix and Phoenix-8 Sepsis Criteria as described in "Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock" by Sanchez-Pinto, Bennett, DeWitt, Russell et al. (2024) doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0196 and "International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock" by Schlapbach, Watson, Sorce, et al. (2024) doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0179 .

How To Cite

When using this R package in your research please cite the Phoenix criteria and the package. You can get details more information via

citation('phoenix')

You can get bibtex entries for all the citations via

print(citation('phoenix'), bibtex = TRUE)

And you can get the up-to-date version and year information for the phoenix package via

print(citation('phoenix', auto = TRUE)) and print(citation('phoenix', auto = TRUE), bibtex = TRUE).

References

There are two major publications to reference with respect to the development of the Phoenix criteria.

  • L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, MD, MBI*; Tellen D. Bennett, MD, MS*; Peter E. DeWitt, PhD**; Seth Russell, MS**; Margaret N. Rebull, MA; Blake Martin, MD; Samuel Akech, MBChB, MMED; David J. Albers, PhD; Elizabeth R. Alpern, MD, MSCE; Fran Balamuth, MD, PhD, MSCE; Melania Bembea, MD, MPH, PhD; Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, MBBS, MMed, PhD; Idris Evans, MD, MSc; Christopher M. Horvat, MD, MHA; Juan Camilo Jaramillo-Bustamante, MD; Niranjan Kissoon, MD; Kusum Menon, MD, MSc; Halden F. Scott, MD, MSCS; Scott L. Weiss, MD; Matthew O. Wiens, PharmD, PhD; Jerry J. Zimmerman, MD, PhD; Andrew C. Argent, MD, MBBCh, MMed***; Lauren R. Sorce, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC/PC23***; Luregn J. Schlapbach, MD, PhD***; R. Scott Watson, MD, MPH***; and the Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. JAMA. 2024;331(8):675–686. Published online January 21, 2024. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0196

    *Drs Sanchez-Pinto and Bennett contributed equally. **Dr DeWitt and Mr Russell contributed equally. ***Drs Argent, Sorce, Schlapbach, and Watson contributed equally.

  • Luregn J. Schlapbach, MD, PhD; R. Scott Watson, MD, MPH; Lauren R. Sorce, PhD, RN; Andrew C. Argent, MD, MBBCh, MMed; Kusum Menon, MD, MSc; Mark W. Hall, MD; Samuel Akech, MBChB, MMED, PhD; David J. Albers, PhD; Elizabeth R. Alpern, MD, MSCE; Fran Balamuth, MD, PhD, MSCE; Melania Bembea, MD, PhD; Paolo Biban, MD; Enitan D. Carrol, MBChB, MD; Kathleen Chiotos, MD; Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, MBBS, MMed, PhD; Peter E. DeWitt, PhD; Idris Evans, MD, MSc; Cláudio Flauzino de Oliveira, MD, PhD; Christopher M. Horvat, MD, MHA; David Inwald, MB, PhD; Paul Ishimine, MD31; Juan Camilo Jaramillo-Bustamante, MD; Michael Levin, MD, PhD; Rakesh Lodha, MD; Blake Martin, MD; Simon Nadel, MBBS; Satoshi Nakagawa, MD; Mark J. Peters, PhD; Adrienne G. Randolph, MD, MS; Suchitra Ranjit, MD; Margaret N. Rebull, MA; Seth Russell, MS; Halden F. Scott, MD; Daniela Carla de Souza, MD, PhD; Pierre Tissieres, MD, DSc; Scott L. Weiss, MD, MSCE; Matthew O. Wiens, PharmD, PhD; James L. Wynn, MD; Niranjan Kissoon, MD; Jerry J. Zimmerman, MD, PhD; L. Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, MD; Tellen D. Bennett, MD, MS; for the Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock. JAMA. 2024;331(8):665–674. doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0179

    *Drs Schlapbach, Watson, Sorce, and Argent contributed equally. **Drs Sanchez-Pinto and Bennett contributed equally.

See also

vignette('phoenix') for more details and examples.

Author

Maintainer: Peter DeWitt peter.dewitt@cuanschutz.edu (ORCID)

Other contributors: