National Early Warning Score (NEWS) Outperforms Quick Sepsis-Related Organ Failure (qSOFA) Score for Early Detection of Sepsis in the Emergency Department.
Dimitri DurrTapio NiemiJeremie DesprazSelin TusgulFabrice DamiRachid AkrourPierre-Nicolas CarronMarie-Annick Le PogamCharlotte ThéroudeSylvain MeylanPublished in: Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) (2022)
The sensitivity of NEWS ≥ 5 was superior to that of qSOFA ≥ 2 to identify patients with sepsis in the ED and predict ICU admission and 28-day mortality. In contrast, qSOFA ≥ 2 had higher specificity and positive predictive values than NEWS ≥ 5 for these three endpoints.