… First, we did not follow up discharged patients and only focused on in-hospital mortality,
which was because we used the Sepsis-3 primary end point of in-hospital mortality. It is possible …

… a suspected infection at admission or later during hospital stay were included in the analysis.
Suspected infection … All-cause in-hospital mortality was recorded as the primary outcome …

… In patients admitted with clinically suspected infection, the venous lactate level predicts
28-day in-hospital mortality independent of blood pressure and adds significant prognostic …

… risk of in-hospital mortality (Panel A) and baseline risk of in-hospital mortality or ICU length
… Panel A, Interpretive example: the x-axis divides the cohort into deciles of baseline mortality …

… score was more predictive of hospital mortality but SIRS was … for hospital mortality among
patients with suspected infection … or ICU of an academic public hospital. We hypothesized that …

… in-hospital mortality increases linearly with decreasing SBP, suggesting that a hypotension
threshold does not exist in older ED patients who are hospitalised with a suspected infection, …

… Additionally, we assessed the OR for hospital mortality comparing infected patients with …
we used the RR for hospital mortality to compare these groups within the individual cohorts. …

… Among the patients with suspected infection who were … -hospital mortality. In order to use
this score in clinical practice, future study is necessary to evaluate how infection is suspected in …

… to report the ability of the qSOFA score to predict adverse outcomes (in-hospital mortality,
and in-hospital mortality or an ICU stay of ≥3 days) in ED patients with suspected infection. …

… the ability of MEDS to predict in-hospital mortality in patients with or without Rivers’ protocol.
Patients admitted to ED with suspected or confirmed infection, 2 or more SIRS criteria, SBP …