The most commonly used disease severity scores are inappropriate for risk stratification of older emergency department sepsis patients: an observational multi-centre study.
Bas de GrootFrank StolwijkMats WarmerdamJacinta A LuckeGurpreet K SinghMo AbbasSimon P MooijaartAnnemieke AnsemsLaura Esteve CuevasDouwe RijpsmaPublished in: Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine (2017)
The prognostic and discriminative performance of the five most commonly used disease severity scores was poor and less useful for risk stratification of older ED sepsis patients.