About the Authors

Hector R. Wong

hector.wong@cchmc.org

Affiliations Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Scott L. Weiss

Affiliation The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John S. Giuliano Jr

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Mark S. Wainwright

Affiliation Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Natalie Z. Cvijanovich

Affiliation Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland, Oakland, California, United States of America

Neal J. Thomas

Affiliation Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Geoffrey L. Allen

Affiliation Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Nick Anas

Affiliation Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, California, United States of America

Michael T. Bigham

Affiliation Akron Children's Hospital, Akron, Ohio, United States of America

Mark Hall

Affiliation Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Robert J. Freishtat

Affiliation Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Anita Sen

Affiliation Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Keith Meyer

Affiliation Miami Children's Hospital, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Paul A. Checchia

Affiliation Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Thomas P. Shanley

Affiliation CS Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Jeffrey Nowak

Affiliation Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Michael Quasney

Affiliation CS Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Arun Chopra

Affiliation St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Julie C. Fitzgerald

Affiliation The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Rainer Gedeit

Affiliation Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Sharon Banschbach

Affiliation Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Eileen Beckman

Affiliation Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Patrick Lahni

Affiliation Division of Critical Care Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Kimberly Hart

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Christopher J. Lindsell

Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Wong and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation have submitted a provisional patent application for the stratification model. Dr. Lindsell is named as a co-inventor in this patent application. PCT/US2013/025233 (published 8/15/13 as WO 2013/119871), entitled “Biomarkers of Septic Shock”, filed 2/7/13 and claiming priority to U.S. Provisional application 61/595,996, filed 2/7/12. This patent does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The remaining authors have no competing interests to report.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HRW CJL. Performed the experiments: HRW SB EB PL CJL. Analyzed the data: HRW KH CJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SLW JSG MW NZC NJT GLA NA MTB MH RJF AS KM PAC TPS JN MQ AC JCF RG. Wrote the paper: HRW CJL. Read and edited the manuscript and approved its final submission: HRW SLW JSG MW NZC NJT GLA NA MTB MH RJF AS KM PAC TPS JN MQ AC JCF RG SB EB PL KH CJL.