Critical illness scoring systems: Sequential organ failure assessment, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II, and quick sequential organ failure assessment to predict the clinical outcomes in scrub typhus patients with organ dysfunctions
Conclusion: Among the three CISSs studied, the SOFA score correlated with in-hospital stay duration and mortality, whereas the qSOFA score formed a simple as well as a convenient tool in predicting the mortality in patients of cST with organ dysfunction.
Source: Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine - Category: Intensive Care Authors: Prasanth Balasubramanian Navneet Sharma Manisha Biswal Ashish Bhalla Susheel Kumar Vivek Kumar Source Type: research
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