Nature

The sensitivity of qSOFA calculated at triage and during emergency department treatment to rapidly identify sepsis patients

The quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) score has been proposed as a means to rapidly identify adult patients with suspected infection, in pre-hospital, Emergency Department (ED), or ...
Medscape

Sepsis: qSOFA More Accurate Than Previous Criteria in ED

In the emergency department (ED) setting, the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score is better than previous criteria for predicting in-hospital mortality among patients with ...
Nature

The SIRS criteria have better performance for predicting infection than qSOFA scores in the emergency department

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) reportedly has a low performance for distinguishing infection from non-infection. We explored the distribution of the patients diagnosed by SIRS (SIRS ...
Healio

Studies confirm accuracy of new criteria for sepsis in predicting mortality risks

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new measurement used to diagnose sepsis in the ED known as the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, or ...