Prognostic and discriminative accuracy of the quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment compared with an early warning score: a Danish cohort study.

Lise Skovgaard SvingelMerete StorgaardBuket Öztürk EsenLotte EbdrupJette AhrensbergKim M LarsenMette NørgaardHenrik Toft SørensenChristian Fynbo Christiansen

Published in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2021)

The qSOFA was less sensitive (qSOFA ≥2 vs EWS ≥5) and discriminatively accurate than the EWS for predicting ICU admission and/or death within 2 days after an initial EWS. This study did not support replacing EWS with qSOFA in all hospitalised patients.

Keyphrases

intensive care unit
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
emergency department
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
acute kidney injury
prognostic factors
high resolution
mass spectrometry
community acquired pneumonia