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SUBMITTER: Amland RC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5774614 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan/Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 20170201 1
The 2016 Sepsis-3 guidelines included the Quick Sequential [Sepsis-related] Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) tool to identify patients at risk of sepsis. The objective was to compare the utility of qSOFA to the St. John Sepsis Surveillance Agent among patients with suspected infection. The primary outcomes were in-hospital mortality or admission to the intensive care unit. A multiple center observational cohort study design was used. The study population comprised 17 044 hospitalized patients be ...[more]