The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score for predicting outcome in patients with severe sepsis and evidence of hypoperfusion at the time of emergency department presentation

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1649-1654

  Jones, Alan E ^a   Trzeciak, Stephen ^b   Kline, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Camden   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortality; Scoring system; Sepsis; Sequential Organ Failure Assessment; Severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPOVOLEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649945779     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31819def97     Document Type: Article

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