Before revision:  Our data-sampling strategy around putative time-points of critical transitions offer early differentiation capability between septic shock and non-sepsis patients .
After revision:  Our data-sampling strategy around putative time-points of critical transitions offer early differentiation capability between septic shock and non-sepsis cohorts. Therefore, our paper contributes a critical-transition-based data-sampling strategy that can be utilized for further analysis, such as patient classification. Moreover, our method outperformed other indicators of critical transition in complex systems, such as temporal autocorrelation and variance .