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Performance of qSOFA Score as a Screening Tool for Sepsis in the Emergency Department

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock, 2023
Introduction: Sepsis is the leading cause of mortality, and various scoring systems have been developed for its early identification and treatment. The objective was to test the ability of quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) score to identify sepsis and predict sepsis-related mortality in the emergency department (
Atul Kumar Tiwari, Nayer Jamshed, Ankit Kumar Sahu, Akshay Kumar, Praveen Aggarwal, Sanjeev Bhoi, Roshan Mathew, Meera Ekka   +7 more
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The Integration of qSOFA with Clinical Variables and Serum Biomarkers Improves the Prognostic Value of qSOFA Alone in Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Sepsis at ED Admission [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2020
Background: The prognostic value of quick sepsis-related organ failure assessment (qSOFA) outside intensive care units has been criticized. Therefore, we aimed to improve its ability in predicting 30-day all-cause mortality, and in ruling out the cases at high risk of death among patients with suspected or confirmed sepsis at emergency department (ED ...
Mearelli, Filippo, Barbati, Giulia, Casarsa, Chiara, Giansante, Carlo, Breglia, Andrea, Spica, Andrea, Moras, Cristina, Olivieri, Gaia, Occhipinti, Alessandro Agostino, De Nardo, Margherita, Spagnol, Francesca, Fiotti, Nicola, Di Girolamo, Filippo Giorgio, Ruscio, Maurizio, Castello, Luigi Mario, Colonetti, Efrem, Marino, Rossella, Ronco, Claudio, Zanetti, Michela, Lupia, Enrico, Muiesan, Maria Lorenza, Di Somma, Salvatore, Avanzi, Gian Carlo, Biolo, Gianni   +23 more
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Comparison of the accuracy of qSOFA and MEWS score for early detection of sepsis [PDF]

Biotika, 2018
MEWS is a scoring that has been observed for early enforcement of severe sepsis in ED (78,8% sensitivity), whereas qSOFA is a scoring that is still debatable in determining suspicious sepsis patients that is recommended by International Consensus Sepsis ...
Mahrus, Dradjat R., Freddy A., Setijowati N.   +3 more
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Which rating system is better – qSOFA or SIRS?

Scripta Scientifica Medica, 2019
Introduction The definitions of sepsis and septic shock were redefined in 2016. This study compares the performance of qSOFA with that of SIRS criteria for the diagnosis of sepsis and prediction of 30-day mortality. Aim The aim of this article is to assess the severity of the infection of patients using SIRS and qSOFA scales and to compare their ...
Pavlina Peneva, Silviya P Nikolova, Yana Bocheva   +2 more
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Utilidad de la puntuación qSOFA para predecir mortalidad hospitalaria en pacientes con cáncer

Gaceta Médica de México
Antecedentes: El quick Sequential Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) es una puntuación propuesta para identificar de forma rápida a pacientes con mayor probabilidad de morir.
Georgina Olvera-Alanis, Silvio A. Ñamendys-Silva, Bertha M. Córdova-Sánchez, José A. Mejía-Mejía, Francisco J. García-Guillén   +4 more
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Geographic Validation of the SADFUL Scores for Identifying Bacteremia in the Unscheduled Emergency Department Revisit Cohorts. [PDF]

Emerg Med Int
Background The SADFUL score is developed to identify bacteremia in emergency department revisits (EDR), but its generalizability in various healthcare facilities and superiority over other scores remain unclear. This study aims to validate the SADFUL score in two hospitals with different levels of care.
Fan CY, Lien CJ, Wang PL, Chen CH, Chen JW, Huang EP, Sung CW.   +6 more
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A Real-Time Prospective Evaluation of the Prognostic Accuracy of SIRS, MEWS, NEWS2 and qSOFA in Predicting ICU Admission and Mortality in an Emergency Department: Implications for Nursing Practice. [PDF]

Nurs Crit Care
ABSTRACT Background Early identification of emergency department (ED) patients with suspected infection who are at risk for adverse outcomes is a core nursing responsibility during triage and early observation. Scoring systems vary in sensitivity and specificity, with limited prospective, real‐time comparisons in Greek EDs.
Xythalis D, Kalafati M, Mpouzika M, Karra V, Kaldis V, Tsekouras K, Sofianou A, Mihopoulos A, Ioannidis A, Tziaferi S.   +9 more
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qSOFA—welcome to the sepsis alphabet soup [PDF]

Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2017
Sepsis-3 has generated a significant amount of debate and controversy since its introduction. Specifically, Sepsis-3 introduced qSOFA as a new terminology for identifying at risk patients for sepsis.
Peter C, Hou, Raghu R, Seethala, Imoigele P, Aisiku   +2 more
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Compliance of the qSOFA scale in emergency triage

Enfermería Cuidándote, 2022
Objective: Analyze the diagnostic precision of the qSOFA scale against the SIRS criteria in emergency triage to identify patients with suspected sepsis. Method: Ambispective cohort study in the emergency room of the Costa del Sol Hospital. The study subjects were older than 14 years who attended with suspected or confirmed infection in the years 2017 ...
Enríquez de Luna-Rodríguez, Margarita, Jiménez Cortés, Yolanda, Rodríguez Montalvo, José Antonio, Rivas-Ruiz, Francisco, Canca Sánchez , José Carlos   +4 more
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SIRS, qSOFA and new sepsis definition [PDF]

Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2017
A 2016 task force convened by national societies including the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) proposed a new definition of sepsis, termed Sepsis-3 (1). The new proposal defines sepsis as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection (1-3).
Paul E, Marik, Abdalsamih M, Taeb
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