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Low sensitivity of qSOFA, SIRS criteria and sepsis definition to identify infected patients at risk of complication in the prehospital setting and at the emergency department triage

BACKGROUND: Sepsis is defined as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a host response to infection. The quick SOFA (qSOFA) score has been recently proposed as a new bedside clinical score to identify patients with suspected infection at risk of complication (intensive care unit (ICU) admissi...

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Autores principales: Tusgul, Selin, Carron, Pierre-Nicolas, Yersin, Bertrand, Calandra, Thierry, Dami, Fabrice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5670696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29100549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-017-0449-y