Figure 2From: 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 C-reactive protein as a diagnostic test for bacteraemia in the medical emergency department. The analysed cut-points are CRP 10–350 mg/dL. The figure shows that the ROC for CRP has an area under the curve of 0.70.Back to article page