Preintubation Sequential Organ Failure Assessment Score for Predicting COVID-19 Mortality: External Validation Using Electronic Health Record From 86 U.S. Healthcare Systems to Appraise Current Ventilator Triage Algorithms*

CONCLUSIONS: In a U.S. cohort of over 15,000 ventilated patients with COVID-19, the SOFA score displayed poor predictive accuracy for short-term mortality. Our findings warrant reappraisal of the SOFA score’s implementation and weightage in existing ventilator triage pathways in current U.S. crisis standards of care guidelines.
Source: Critical Care Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Feature Articles Source Type: research