Comparison of SIRS criteria and qSOFA score for identifying culture-positive sepsis in the emergency department: a prospective cross-sectional multicentre study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the daily practice of two emergency departments (ED) in the Netherlands, where systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria and quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score are used differently as screening tools for culture-positive sepsis.

Design

A prospective cross-sectional multicentre study.

Setting

Two EDs at two European clinical teaching hospitals in the Netherlands.

Participants

760 patients with suspected infection who met SIRS criteria or had a qualifying qSOFA score who were treated at two EDs in the Netherlands from 1 January to 1 March 2018 were included.

Methods

SIRS criteria and qSOFA score were calculated for each patient. The first hospital treated the patients who met SIRS criteria following t

SUBMITTER: Mignot-Evers L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8210661 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature