Prognostic accuracy of qSOFA in predicting 28-day mortality among infected patients in an emergency department: a prospective validation study.

S M Osama Bin AbdullahRune Husås SørensenRam Benny Christian DessauSaifullah Muhammed Rafid Us SattarLothar WieseFinn Erland Nielsen

Published in: Emergency medicine journal : EMJ (2019)

Both SIRS and qSOFA had poor sensitivity for 28-day mortality. qSOFA improved the specificity at the expense of the sensitivity resulting in slightly higher prognostic accuracy overall.

Keyphrases

emergency department
cardiovascular events
risk factors
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