Figure 1From: How do bacteraemic patients present to the emergency department and what is the diagnostic validity of the clinical parameters; temperature, C-reactive protein and systemic inflammatory response syndrome?Receiver operating curve (ROC) for temperature as a diagnostic test for bacteraemia in the medical emergency department. The analysed cut-points are 36°C–41°C. The figure shows that the ROC for temperature has an area under the curve of 0.75.Back to article page