The Role of Procalcitonin in Diagnosis of Sepsis and Antibiotic Stewardship: Opportunities and Challenges

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ² Department of Laboratory Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ³ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Eleftherios.Diamandis@sinaihealthsystem.ca.
• ⁴ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁵ Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁶ Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Department of Pathology & Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
• ⁷ Senior Associate Dean for Education Coordination, Associate Dean Continuing Medical Education, Professor and Vice Chair for Critical Care, Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
• ⁸ Head of Infectious Disease and Medical Director of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁹ Assistant Director of Central Laboratory, Director of Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, and Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY.
• ¹⁰ Lead Pharmacist, Antimicrobial Stewardship, St. Joseph's Health Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ¹¹ Pharmacist Consultant, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Public Health Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada.