SIRS, qSOFA, and organ failure for assessing sepsis at the emergency department.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

1. Lactate-enhanced-qSOFA (LqSOFA) score as a predictor of in-hospital mortality in patients with sepsis: systematic review and meta-analysis.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2025
   Pooled it
2. Does lactate enhance the prognostic accuracy of the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment for adult patients with sepsis? A systematic review.BMJ open · 2022
   Pooled it
3. Combining C-reactive protein and quick sequential organ failure assessment (qSOFA) to improve prognostic accuracy for sepsis and mortality in adult inpatients: A systematic review.Health science reports · 2023
   Article
4. Risk prediction of biomarkers for early multiple organ dysfunction in critically ill patients.BMC emergency medicine · 2021
   Observational
5. Utilization of systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria in predicting mortality among geriatric patients with influenza in the emergency department.BMC infectious diseases · 2019
   Article
6. Bedside-measurement of serum cholinesterase activity predicts patient morbidity and length of the intensive care unit stay following major traumatic injury.Scientific reports · 2019
   Observational
7. Quick-SOFA score to predict mortality among geriatric patients with influenza in the emergency department.Medicine · 2019
   Article
8. Severe imported malaria in an intensive care unit: A case series.IDCases · 2019
   Article
9. [Assessment of the severity scores in patients included in a sepsis code in an Emergency Departament].Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2018
   Article
10. Raising concerns about the Sepsis-3 definitions.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2018
    Review
11. Strength of Omics in Uncovering Sepsis Mechanisms-A Perspective.Current health sciences journal
    Review

Corrections and comments

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  Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, Quick Sequential Organ Function Assessment, and Organ Dysfunction: Insights From a Prospective Database of ED Patients With Infection.2017

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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