Association of the quick sequential (sepsis-related) organ failure assessment (qSOFA) score with excess hospital mortality in adults with suspected infection in low- and middle-income countries

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 319, Issue 21, 2018, Pages 2202-2211

  Rudd, Kristina E ^a   Seymour, Christopher W ^b   Aluisio, Adam R ^c   Augustin, Marc E ^d   Bagenda, Danstan S ^e   Beane, Abi ^f,g   Byiringiro, Jean Claude ^h   Chang, Chung Chou H ^b   Colas, L Nathalie ^d   Day, Nicholas P J ^f,i   De Silva, A Pubudu ^j,k   Dondorp, Arjen M ^f,i   Dünser, Martin W ^l   Faiz, M Abul ^f,m   Grant, Donald S ^n,o   Haniffa, Rashan ^j   Van Hao, Nguyen ^p,q   Kennedy, Jason N ^b   Levine, Adam C ^c   Limmathurotsakul, Direk ^f,i   Mohanty, Sanjib ^r,s   Nosten, François ^i,t   Papali, Alfred ^u,v   Patterson, Andrew J ^e   Schieffelin, John S ^w   Shaffer, Jeffrey G ^x   Thuy, Duong Bich ^p,y   Thwaites, C Louise ^i,y   Urayeneza, Olivier ^z   White, Nicholas J ^f,i   West, T Eoin ^a   Angus, Derek C ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d St Luke Foundation for Haiti Port au Prince   (Haïti)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j National Intensive Care Surveillance   (Sri Lanka)

^k King's College London   (United Kingdom)

^l KEPLER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^m Dev Care Foundation   (Bangladesh)

ⁿ Kenema Government Hospital   (Sierra Leone)

^o UNIVERSITY OF SIERRA LEONE   (Sierra Leone)

^p UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY AT HO CHI MINH CITY   (Viet Nam)

^r ISPAT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^s Asian Institute of Public Health   (India)

^t SHOKLO MALARIA RESEARCH UNIT   (Thailand)

^u UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^v Novant Health Pulmonary and Critical Care   (United States)

^w TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^x TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^y OXFORD UNIVERSITY CLINICAL RESEARCH UNIT   (Viet Nam)

^z University of Gitwe   (Rwanda)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BREATHING RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LASSA FEVER; LOW INCOME COUNTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; PARASITEMIA; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; QUICK SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT SCORE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME CRITERIA; TUBERCULOSIS; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; COHORT STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEPSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 85048255823     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2018.6229     Document Type: Article

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