eccSOFA: SOFA illness severity score adapted to predict in-hospital mortality in emergency critical care patients

Boarding of ICU patients in the ED is increasing. Illness severity scores may help emergency physicians stratify risk to guide earlier transfer to the ICU and assess pre-ICU interventions by adjusting for baseline mortality risk. Most existing illness severity scores are based on data that is not available at the time of the hospital admission decision or cannot be extracted from the electronic health record (EHR). We adapted the SOFA score to create a new illness severity score (eccSOFA) that can be calculated at the time of ICU admission order entry in the ED using EHR data.

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - December 14, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Kian Niknam, Jason Nesbitt, Tsuyoshi Mitarai, Matthew J.R. Nudelman, Alexandra June Gordon, Jennifer G. Wilson, Michael A. Kohn Source Type: research