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 …

Objective: To estimate the impact of adopting the proposed new diagnostic criteria for
sepsis, based on Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) criteria, on the diagnosis …

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 …

Objectives: Sepsis-3 recommends using the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment
(qSOFA) score followed by SOFA score for sepsis evaluation. The SOFA is complex and …

Contrasting qSOFA and SIRS Criteria for Early Sepsis Identification in a Veteran Population -
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Abstract Introduction The Sepsis-3 definition provides a change of two or more scores from
zero or a known baseline of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) as criteria of …

Purpose To prospectively assess the diagnostic value of quick Sequential Organ Failure
Assessment (qSOFA) and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) scores for …

Importance The Third International Consensus Definitions Task Force defined sepsis as “life-
threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection.” The …

Abstract Introduction The Society of Critical-Care Medicine and the European Society of
Intensive Care Medicine recently announced a marked change in the sepsis definition. A …

Abstract Objective Use of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score has been
proposed by the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock. The …