Open AccessPrognostic Accuracy of SOFA, qSOFA, and SIRS for Mortality Among Emergency Department Patients with Infections
Author(s) -
S M Osama Bin Abdullah,
Rune Husås Sørensen,
Finn Erland Nielsen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
infection and drug resistance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.033
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1178-6973
DOI - 10.2147/idr.s304952
Subject(s) - medicine , receiver operating characteristic , systemic inflammatory response syndrome , emergency department , sofa score , confidence interval , likelihood ratios in diagnostic testing , prospective cohort study , area under the curve , predictive value of tests , sepsis , psychiatry
This study aimed to determine the prognostic accuracy of SOFA in comparison to quick-SOFA (qSOFA) and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in predicting 28-day mortality in the emergency department (ED) patients with infections.