Quick sequential organ failure assessment compared to systemic inflammatory response syndrome for predicting sepsis in emergency department

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
5583301	Journal of Critical Care	2017	6 Pages	PDF

Abstract

qSOFA has a superior ability compared to SIRS in predicting the occurrence of organ failure in patients with a suspected infection. However, given the low sensitivity of qSOFA, further confirmatory tests for organ failure are needed.

Keywords

PPV GCs SIRS AUROC qSOFA positive predictive value negative predictive value emergency department Systemic inflammatory response syndrome Sepsis NPV یا negative predictive value Glasgow coma scale area under receiver operating characteristic Organ failure SOFA