Identifying patients with sepsis on the hospital wards

P Bhattacharjee, DP Edelson, MM Churpek - Chest, 2017 - Elsevier
Sepsis contributes to up to half of all deaths in hospitalized patients, and early interventions,
such as appropriate antibiotics, have been shown to improve outcomes. Most research has …

[HTML][HTML] Scoring systems for the characterization of sepsis and associated outcomes

N McLymont, GW Glover - Annals of translational medicine, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sepsis is responsible for the utilisation of a significant proportion of healthcare resources
and has high mortality rates. Early diagnosis and prompt interventions are associated with …

Predicting mortality in patients with suspected sepsis at the Emergency Department; A retrospective cohort study comparing qSOFA, SIRS and National Early Warning …

A Brink, J Alsma, RJCG Verdonschot, PPM Rood… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Objective In hospitalized patients, the risk of sepsis-related mortality can be assessed using
the quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA). Currently, different tools that …

Clinical scores and formal triage for screening of sepsis and adverse outcomes on arrival in an emergency department all-comer cohort

RN Ortega, C Rosin, R Bingisser, CH Nickel - The Journal of emergency …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Early recognition of sepsis remains a major challenge. The clinical utility of the
Quick Sepsis-Related Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score is still undefined. Several …

Development and evaluation of a machine learning model for the early identification of patients at risk for sepsis

RJ Delahanty, JA Alvarez, LM Flynn, RL Sherwin… - Annals of emergency …, 2019 - Elsevier
Study objective The Third International Consensus Definitions (Sepsis-3) Task Force
recommended the use of the quick Sequential [Sepsis-related] Organ Failure Assessment …

NEWS2 is superior to qSOFA in detecting sepsis with organ dysfunction in the emergency department

L Mellhammar, A Linder, J Tverring… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Early administration of antibiotics is associated with better survival in sepsis, thus screening
and early detection for sepsis is of clinical importance. Current risk stratification scores used …

Usefulness of qSOFA and SIRS scores for detection of incipient sepsis in general ward patients: a prospective cohort study

J Luo, W Jiang, L Weng, J Peng, X Hu, C Wang… - Journal of critical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose To prospectively assess the diagnostic value of quick Sequential Organ Failure
Assessment (qSOFA) and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) scores for …

National Early Warning Score (NEWS) outperforms quick sepsis-related organ failure (qSOFA) score for early detection of sepsis in the emergency department

D Durr, T Niemi, J Despraz, S Tusgul, F Dami, R Akrour… - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Prompt recognition of sepsis is critical to improving patients' outcomes. We
compared the performance of NEWS and qSOFA scores as sepsis detection tools in patients …

Red-flag sepsis and SOFA identifies different patient population at risk of sepsis-related deaths on the general ward

M Kopczynska, B Sharif, S Cleaver, N Spencer… - Medicine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Controversy exists regarding the best diagnostic and screening tool for sepsis outside the
intensive care unit (ICU). Sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score has been …

Comparison of QSOFA score and SIRS criteria as screening mechanisms for emergency department sepsis

S Haydar, M Spanier, P Weems, S Wood… - The American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Objectives The Quick Sequential [Sepsis-related] Organ Failure Assessment
(qSOFA) score has been shown to accurately predict mortality in septic patients and is part …