The Phoenix Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock Criteria
Overview
Implementation of the Phoenix and Phoenix-8 Sepsis Criteria as described in "Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock" by Sanchez-Pinto, Bennett, DeWitt, Russell et al. (2024) doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0196 (Drs. Sanchez-Pinto and Bennett contributed equally to this manuscript; Dr. DeWitt and Mr. Russell contributed equally to the manuscript), "International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock" by Schlapbach, Watson, Sorce, Argent, et al. (2024) doi:10.1001/jama.2024.0179 (Drs Schlapbach, Watson, Sorce, and Argent contributed equally) and the application note "phoenix: an R package and Python module for calculating the Phoenix pediatric sepsis score and criteria" by DeWitt, Russell, Rebull, Sanchez-Pinto, and Bennett (2024) doi:10.1093/jamiaopen/ooae066.
- Spelling and grammar fixes in the documentation for the R, python, and sql.
From NEWS.md in the release
Install
Health
- OK13 OK2026-08-05
- NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
- OK13 OK2026-06-09
- ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
- OK14 OK2026-03-10
Documentation
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- Help pages
- 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 100%11 run in a plain check
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 85%
Downloads
Repository
- PRs merged (all time)
- 100%
- Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
- 10
- Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
- 1
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10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository
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Dependencies
Installing phoenix adds no packages beyond those that come with R.
Code & Tests
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2024-03-12
- Total releases
- 5 / 2 yrs
- License
- MIT + file LICENSE OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 3.5.0
- Bundled data
- 1.4 KB / 1 file
- Download size
- 228 KB
Cite
Cite this package
Run in R for the authors' entry:
citation("phoenix")The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.
It points to 10.1001/jama.2024.0196, 10.1001/jama.2024.0179, 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooae066.
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