Contribution of biochemical and physical variables to a model predicting infection in systemically inflamed neutropenic hematology patients.

Abbreviations: S = serum, P = blood plasma, B = blood.aThe relative importance of each variable to the 139-variable model was determined using the “Variable importance” module in the SIMCA software.bPatients were classified as infected or non-infected by an independent infectious disease specialist blinded to the results of the biochemical analyses