Investigating the Utility of the SOFA Score and Creating a Modified SOFA Score for Predicting Mortality in the Intensive Care Units in a Tertiary Hospital in Jordan

CONCLUSION: SOFA score was a good predictor of mortality in a Jordanian ICU population and better than qSOFA, while SIRS could not predict mortality. Furthermore, the proposed mSOFA score which employed fewer laboratory tests could be used after validation from larger studies.PMID:37583653 | PMC:PMC10425253 | DOI:10.1155/2023/3775670

Source: Critical Care Research and Practice - August 16, 2023 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Anas H A Abu-Humaidan Fatima M Ahmad Laith S Theeb Abdelrahman J Sulieman Abdelkader Battah Amjad Bani Hani Mahmoud Abu Abeeleh Source Type: research