Validation and comparison of triage-based screening strategies for sepsis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study sought to externally validate and compare proposed methods for stratifying sepsis risk at emergency department (ED) triage.

Methods

This nested case/control study enrolled ED patients from four hospitals in Utah and evaluated the performance of previously-published sepsis risk scores amenable to use at ED triage based on their area under the precision-recall curve (AUPRC, which balances positive predictive value and sensitivity) and area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUROC, which balances sensitivity and specificity). Score performance for predicting whether patients met Sepsis-3 criteria in the ED was compared to patients' assigned ED triage score (Canadian Triage Acuity Score [CTAS]) with adjustment for multiple comparisons.

Resu

SUBMITTER: Rahmati K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11525104 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature