Open AccessComparison of severity of illness scoring systems in the prediction of hospital mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock
Author(s) -
Colleen Crowe,
Erik Kulstad,
C. Mistry,
Christine Kulstad
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.70761
Subject(s) - medicine , septic shock , emergency department , early goal directed therapy , sepsis , confidence interval , severity of illness , emergency medicine , population , intensive care medicine , severe sepsis , environmental health , psychiatry
New scoring systems, including the Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS), the Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis (MEDS) score, and the confusion, urea nitrogen, respiratory rate, blood pressure, 65 years and older (CURB-65) score, have been developed for emergency department (ED) use in various patient populations. Increasing use of early goal directed therapy (EGDT) for the emergent treatment of sepsis introduces a growing population of patients in which the accuracy of these scoring systems has not been widely examined.