Sepsis is a rather common admitting diagnosis to hospital with high mortality rate. Identifying patients who are at a higher risk of adverse outcomes may help to optimize resource allocation. To this end, initially SIRS definition was recommended. More recently, qSOFA is being promoted as a predictor of adverse events during hospitalization due to sepsis. However, there is a lesser known NEWS score that is also being used at few hospitals.
This study compared the three scores in a retrospective sample and found that NEWS may be similar or superior to qSOFA. Note that qSOFA (3 variables) is the quickest and simplest of the three while NEWS is the most complex (20 variables).
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