Executive Summary: Guidelines for Evaluating New Fever in Adult Patients in the ICU

1 Internal Medicine Services, National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD.

2 Clinical Pharmacy Services, Department of Pharmacy, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, FL.

3 Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.

4 Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates.

5 Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, MD.

6 Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Internal Medicine—Critical Care Services, Atrium Health Cabarrus, Concord, NC.

7 Infectious Diseases Division, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE.

8 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY.

9 Division of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

10 Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

11 Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.

Dr. Weber received funding from Pfizer, Merck, PDI, and Germitec. Dr. Pastores received funding from McGraw Hill; he disclosed that he is on the advisory board for AbbVie. Dr. van Duin received funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Antimicrobial Resistance Leadership Group UM1AI104681), the National Institutes of Health, and British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy; he disclosed that he is a consultant for Actavis, Tetraphase, Sanofi-Pasteur, MedImmune, Astellas, Merck, Allergan, T2Biosystems, Roche, Achaogen, Neumedicine, Shionogi, Pfizer, Entasis, QPex, Wellspring, Karius, and Utility. Dr. Patel received funding from ContraFect, TenNor Therapeutics, Hylomorph, BioFire, Shionogi, Infectious Diseases Society of America, National Board of Medical Examiners, UptoDate, and the Infectious Diseases Board Review Course; she disclosed that she is a consultant for Curetis, Specific Technologies, Next Gen Diagnostics, PathoQuest, Selux Diagnostics, 1928 Diagnostics, PhAST Diagnostics, Torus Biosystems, Mammoth Biosciences, Qvella, and Netflix; she disclosed that she has a patent on Bordetella pertussis/parapertussis polymerase chain reaction issued, a patent on a device/method for sonication with royalties paid by Samsung to Mayo Clinic, and a patent on an anti-biofilm substance issued. The remaining authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.

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