qSOFA: Quick SOFA score for sepsis

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Description

Identifies high-risk patients for in-hospital mortality with suspected infection outside the ICU.

Usage

qSOFA(
  altered.mental.status = "no", 
  respiratory.rate = 16, 
  systolic.blood.pressure = 120
)

Arguments

altered.mental.status	String value. Input "yes" if patient has altered mental status. Input 'no' if the patient does not have altered mental status. Please use lower case.
respiratory.rate	Numerical or integer value corresponding to number of breaths per minute of the patient.
systolic.blood.pressure	Numerical or integer value corresponding to the patient's systolic blood pressure.

Value

Integer value corresponding to the qSOFA score.

Risk group

Patient's with scores 0-1 are not high risk for in-hospital mortality. Patient's with scores 2-3 are at High risk for in-hospital mortality (3 to 14-fold increase).

Author(s)

Carlos C Vera Recio

References

Seymour CW, Liu VX, Iwashyna TJ, et al. Assessment of Clinical Criteria for Sepsis: For the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3). JAMA. 2016;315(8):762–774. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.0288

Examples

# Patient with altered mental status and tachypnea
qSOFA(
  altered.mental.status = "yes", 
  respiratory.rate = 21, 
  systolic.blood.pressure = 120
)

# Patient without altered mental status but with tachypnea and droping blood pressures.
qSOFA(
  altered.mental.status = "no", 
  respiratory.rate = 21, 
  systolic.blood.pressure = 95
)

CCVR/inteRn documentation built on Dec. 17, 2021, 12:51 p.m.