ArticleJournal of Korean medical science2025
Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Sepsis and Septic Shock in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.
Article in Journal of Korean medical science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Phoenix Criteria and Other Severity Scores in Identifying Pediatric Sepsis.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- External validation of the Phoenix Sepsis Score in a paediatric intensive care unit in Saudi Arabia.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Comparison of Phoenix Sepsis Score and traditional scoring systems in predicting mortality in PICU patients with suspected infection.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- [Prognostic value of critical illness scores and the ratio of neutrophil count to lymphocyte and platelet count for predicting 28-day mortality in pediatric sepsis].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2026Article
- Clinical Scores for Predicting Outcomes in Pediatric Oncology Sepsis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Critical care research and practice · 2026Review
- Comparison of Pediatric Risk of Mortality-III, Phoenix Sepsis, and pediatric Sequential Organ Failure Assessment scores for predicting septic shock in Vietnamese children with sepsis.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious DiseasesArticle
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
The applicability of the Phoenix criteria and Phoenix Sepsis Score in higher-resource pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) outside the United States requires further validation. A retrospective cohort study analyzed electronic health records of 1,304 PICU admissions under 18 years old with suspected infection between February 2017 and December 2023. The score was calculated using two methods: 24-hour assessment, based on worst sub-scores within 24 hours of admission, and prompt assessment, using values closest to admission within 6 hours before or after. Based on the 24-hour assessment, in-hospital mortality was 8.3% for sepsis and 10.3% for septic shock. The score demonstrated an area under the precision-recall curve of 0.42 (95% confidence interval, 0.31-0.55) for in-hospital mortality. Results were consistent across both assessment methods. The Phoenix criteria and the Phoenix Sepsis Score are reliable predictors of mortality outcomes. Further investigation in diverse clinical settings is warranted.
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