CRP and Sepsis: Six studies [5,6,7,8,9,10] sought to assess whether the integration of qSOFA with plasma concentrations of conventional biomarkers of prognosis (C-reactive protein [CRP] [5,6], lactate [7,8,9,10], and procalcitonin [5,6]) could improve the performance of qSOFA alone in predicting sepsis outcome: however, the results were conflicting.