ArticleThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2020
The Prevalence and Outcomes of Sepsis in Adult Patients in Two Hospitals in Malawi.
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- Accuracy of prognostic scoring tools for ICU triage and mortality among patients in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open respiratory research · 2026Pooled it
- Sepsis screening tools in resource-limited settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy in low- and middle-income countries.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Resource use, availability and cost in the provision of critical care in Tanzania: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2022Pooled it
- Predictors of ICU mortality in septic patients in a resource-limited African setting: a prospective multicenter cohort study in Lubumbashi, DRC.Journal of anesthesia, analgesia and critical care · 2026Article
- Case-based review of low-field MRI in resource-constrained settings: a clinical perspective from Malawi.BJR open · 2025Review
- Mortality due to Sepsis and Its Associated Factors Among Patients Admitted to Intensive Care Units of Southern Amhara Public Hospitals, Ethiopia.BioMed research international · 2024Article
- A health systems approach to critical care delivery in low-resource settings: a narrative review.Intensive care medicine · 2023Review
- Sepsis in Brazilian emergency departments: a prospective multicenter observational study.Internal and emergency medicine · 2023Observational
- A comparison of different scores for diagnosis and mortality prediction of adults with sepsis in Low-and-MiddleEClinicalMedicine · 2021Article
- Resource availability, utilisation and cost in the provision of critical care in Tanzania: a protocol for a systematic review.BMJ open · 2021Article
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- Inability-to-walk-unaided-a single WHO danger sign predicts in-hospital mortality in people with HIV under routine care conditions in a low-resource setting.Therapeutic advances in infectious diseaseArticle
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Abstract
There are an estimated 19.4 million sepsis cases every year, many of them in low-income countries. The newly adopted definition of sepsis uses Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score (SOFA), a score which is not feasible in many low-resource settings. A simpler quick-SOFA (qSOFA) based solely on vital signs score has been devised for identification of suspected sepsis. This study aimed to determine in-hospital prevalence and outcomes of sepsis, as defined as suspected infection and a qSOFA score of 2 or more, in two hospitals in Malawi. The secondary aim was to evaluate qSOFA as a predictor of mortality. A cross-sectional study of adult in-patients in two hospitals in Malawi was conducted using prospectively collected single-day point-prevalence data and in-hospital follow-up. Of 1,135 participants, 81 (7.1%) had sepsis. Septic patients had a higher hospital mortality rate (17.5%) than non-septic infected patients (9.0%,
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