[Minimum quality threshold in preclinical sepsis studies (MQTiPSS): quality threshold for types of infections and organ dysfunction endpoints].

OBJECTIVE: Although the clinical definitions of sepsis and recommended treatments are regularly updated, a systematic review has not been done for preclinical models. To address this deficit, a Wiggers-Bernard Conference on preclinical sepsis modeling reviewed the 260 most highly cited papers between 2003 and 2012 using sepsis models to create a series of recommendations. This Part II report provi…