To study the prognostic value of fever in the emergency department in septic patients subsequently admitted to the ICU.
Observational cohort study from the Swedish national quality register for sepsis.
Thirty ICU's in Sweden.
Two thousand two hundred twenty-five adults who were admitted to an ICU within 24 hours of hospital arrival with a diagnosis of severe sepsis or septic shock were included.
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Body temperature was measured and classified according to four categories (