Comparison of qSOFA and SIRS for predicting adverse outcomes of patients with suspicion of sepsis outside the intensive care unit

Critical Care

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Finkelsztein, Eli J ^a   Jones, Daniel S ^a   Ma, Kevin C ^a   Pabón, Maria A ^a   Delgado, Tatiana ^a   Nakahira, Kiichi ^a   Arbo, John E ^a   Berlin, David A ^a   Schenck, Edward J ^a   Choi, Augustine M K ^a   Siempos, Ilias I ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Critical care; Infection; Mortality; Organ failure; Severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BIOBANK; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MORTALITY RATE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME SCORE; WARD; APACHE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

AGED; APACHE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; PATIENTS' ROOMS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 85017101413     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-017-1658-5     Document Type: Article

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