The prognostic performance of qSOFA for community-acquired pneumonia

Abstract Background Quick Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) is a new screening system for sepsis. The prognostic performance of qSOFA for patients with suspected infections outside the intensive care unit (ICU) is similar to that of full SOFA; however, its performance for community-acq...

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Main Authors: Fumiaki Tokioka, Hiroshi Okamoto, Akio Yamazaki, Akihiro Itou, Tadashi Ishida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-08-01
Series:Journal of Intensive Care
Subjects:
PSI
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40560-018-0307-7