51. Identifying which septic patients have increased mortality risk using severity scores: a cohort study
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Bruce Guthrie, Josie M M Evans, Shaun Mcleod, Jan E C Pringle, Charis Marwick, and Peter Davey
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Outcomes ,Severity of Illness Index ,Severity ,Cohort Studies ,Sepsis ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,Severity of illness ,Risk scores ,medicine ,SIRS ,Humans ,CURB ,Hospital Mortality ,Prospective Studies ,Mortality ,Prospective cohort study ,Intensive care medicine ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,Aged, 80 and over ,business.industry ,Retrospective cohort study ,CURB65 ,Odds ratio ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Systemic inflammatory response syndrome ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Cohort ,Female ,business ,Research Article ,Cohort study - Abstract
Background Early aggressive therapy can reduce the mortality associated with severe sepsis but this relies on prompt recognition, which is hindered by variation among published severity criteria. Our aim was to test the performance of different severity scores in predicting mortality among a cohort of hospital inpatients with sepsis. Methods We anonymously linked routine outcome data to a cohort of prospectively identified adult hospital inpatients with sepsis, and used logistic regression to identify associations between mortality and demographic variables, clinical factors including blood culture results, and six sets of severity criteria. We calculated performance characteristics, including area under receiver operating characteristic curves (AUROC), of each set of severity criteria in predicting mortality. Results Overall mortality was 19.4% (124/640) at 30 days after sepsis onset. In adjusted analysis, older age (odds ratio 5.79 (95% CI 2.87-11.70) for ≥80y versus 21d versus
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- 2014