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: Source Type: research