Red-flag sepsis and SOFA identifies different patient population at risk of sepsis-related deaths on the general ward.

ABSTRACT: Controversy exists regarding the best diagnostic and screening tool for sepsis outside the intensive care unit (ICU). Sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score has been shown to be superior to systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria, however, the performance of "Red Flag sepsis criteria" has not been tested formally.The aim of the study was to investigate the ability of Red Flag sepsis criteria to identify the patients at high risk of sepsis-related death in comparison to SOFA based sepsis criteria. We also investigated the comparison of Red Flag sepsis to quick SOFA (qSOFA), SIRS, and national early warning score (NEWS) scores and factors influencing patient mortality.Patients were recruited into a 24-hour point-prevalence study on the general wards and emergency de

SUBMITTER: Kopczynska M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6310498 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature