The most commonly used disease severity scores are inappropriate for risk stratification of older emergency department sepsis patients: An observational multi-centre study

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  de Groot, Bas ^a   Stolwijk, Frank ^a   Warmerdam, Mats ^a   Lucke, Jacinta A ^a   Singh, Gurpreet K ^a   Abbas, Mo ^a   Mooijaart, Simon P ^a,b   Ansems, Annemieke ^c   Esteve Cuevas, Laura ^c   Rijpsma, Douwe ^d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Evidence Based Medicine in Old Age   (Netherlands)

^c ALBERT SCHWEITZER HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disease severity scores; Emergency medical services; Infectious diseases; Mortality; Older patients; QSOFA; Risk stratification; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS;

AGED; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 85029227577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13049-017-0436-3     Document Type: Article

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