Timing of adequate antibiotic therapy is a greater determinant of outcome than are TNF and IL-10 polymorphisms in patients with sepsis

Table 1 Reasons for exclusion of 69 patients screened in the present study

Reason	Number
Permission denied	20
Diagnosis other than sepsis	20
Race other than Caucasian	13
Do not resuscitate order	8
Technical problem to extract DNA	2
Death before permission could be obtained	3
Other	3

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