Figure 3From: 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 systemic inflammatory response syndrome as a diagnostic test for bacteraemia in the medical emergency department. The analysed cut-points are SIRS criteria 0–4. The figure shows that the ROC for SIRS has an area under the curve of 0.76.Back to article page