When the analysis approach was repeated but now for the associations with solely proven sepsis, instead of clinical and proven sepsis, the same clinical signs stayed in the final model, except for pallor and/or grey skin (Table 3). Performance of these models for predicting proven sepsis was also good with AUC 0.84 (95%CI 0.78–0.90; p < 0.001) and Hosmer–Leme- show goodness-of-fit-test p 0 0.319 for the full model and AUC 0.83 (95 %CI 0.76–0.89; p < 0.001) and Hosmer–Lemeshow goodness-of-fit-test p00.174 for the reduced model.