Open AccessThe Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score Predicts 30-Day Mortality in a Geriatric Acute Care Setting
Author(s) -
Paolo Mazzola,
Giuseppe Bellelli,
Sabrina Perego,
Antonella Zambon,
Andrea Mazzone,
Adriana Antonella Bruni,
Giorgio Ani
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the journals of gerontology series a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.134
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1758-535X
pISSN - 1079-5006
DOI - 10.1093/gerona/glt020
Subject(s) - medicine , sofa score , confidence interval , odds ratio , observational study , intensive care , emergency medicine , prospective cohort study , emergency department , cohort study , population , intensive care unit , intensive care medicine , environmental health , psychiatry
Several tools to predict patients' survival have been proposed in medical wards, though they are often time consuming and difficult to apply. The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) is a promising tool that has been validated in intensive care units but never in acute medical wards. The aim of this study was to assess whether the SOFA score predicts short-term (30 days) mortality in a population of elderly patients admitted to a geriatric ward.
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