SOFA and qSOFA usefulness for in-hospital death prediction of elderly patients admitted for suspected infection in internal medicine.
Lorenzo FalsettiMarianna MartinoVincenzo ZacconeGiovanna ViticchiAlessia RaponiGianluca MoronciniAgnese FioranelliChiara di PentimaAlessandro MartiniCinzia NittiAldo SalviMaurizio BurattiniNicola TarquinioPublished in: Infection (2020)
Elderly patients admitted to stepdown beds for suspected infection experience a high rate of in-hospital death; both SOFA and qSOFA scores can be useful to identify a group of patients who can benefit from admission to an intermediate care environment, however their accuracy is low.