The present invention belongs to the field of
clinical diagnosis. In particular, the present invention relates to assessing the severity of a subject suspected of infection or having an infection by determining the level of
procalcitonin (hereinafter: PCT) (SEQ ID No: 1) and / or proadrenomedullin (hereinafter: proADM) (SEQ ID No: 3) or a partial
peptide or fragment thereof, in particular mid-region proadrenomedullin (MR-proADM) (SEQ ID No: 2) in a patient sample, wherein the subject may have physiological signs of infection or
increased risk factors, in particular from an infectious
disease, and the present invention relates to its
workflow. In addition, the present invention relates to assessments related to infection, such as exclusion / determination of patients and stratification,
risk assessment, in particular to avoid re-hospitalization and hospital and post-
discharge deaths.