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ArticleDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Cortisol Testing in Septic Shock: An Evaluation of Diagnostic Performance and Predictors of Corticosteroid Use in a Middle Eastern Cohort.

Fayez Alshamsi, Saeed Alkaabi, Maryam Nasser Mohamedali Alfadli, Naser Abdulla Naser Salem Alshkeili, Sultan Majed Ibrahim Alhosani, Adnan Agha

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Article in Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Fayez AlshamsiDepartment of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain P.O. Box 15551, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-9121-4279
Saeed AlkaabiDepartment of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain P.O. Box 15551, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0009-0000-4870-2616
Maryam Nasser Mohamedali AlfadliDepartment of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain P.O. Box 15551, United Arab Emirates.
Naser Abdulla Naser Salem AlshkeiliDepartment of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain P.O. Box 15551, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0009-0002-7364-9233
Sultan Majed Ibrahim AlhosaniDepartment of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain P.O. Box 15551, United Arab Emirates.
Adnan AghaDepartment of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain P.O. Box 15551, United Arab Emirates.ORCID 0000-0002-2704-8931

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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clinical utilitycortisolcritical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiencydiagnostic accuracyhydrocortisoneintensive caresepsisseptic shock

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PMID41153260
PMCPMC12563359

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