Sepsis recognition tools in acute ambulatory care: associations with process of care and clinical outcomes in a service evaluation of an Emergency Multidisciplinary Unit in Oxfordshire.
Christian Fielder CammGail HaywardTania C N EliasJordan S T BowenRoya HassanzadehThomas FanshaweSarah T PendleburyDaniel S LassersonPublished in: BMJ open (2018)
Acute ambulatory care clinicians should use caution in applying the new NICE endorsed criteria for determining the need for intravenous therapy and hospital-based location of care. NICE criteria have poorer performance when compared against NEWS and SIRS and new-onset confusion was prevalent in patients aged ≥85 years without infection.
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