Use of the sequential organ failure: Assessment score as a severity score

• Published in: Intensive care medicine Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 243 - 249
• Main Authors: KAJDACSY-BALLA AMARAL, André Carlos, MOREIRA ANDRADE, Fabio, MORENO, Rui, ARTIGAS, Antonio, CANTRAINE, Francis, VINCENT, Jean-Louis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Springer 01.02.2005; Berlin Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Analysis of Variance; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Biological and medical sciences; Clinical death. Palliative care. Organ gift and preservation; Emergency and intensive respiratory care; Female; Hospital Mortality; Humans; Infections; Intensive care; Intensive care medicine; Intensive Care Units; Logistic Models; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Mortality; Multiple Organ Failure - mortality; Patients; Physiology; Predictive Value of Tests; Prospective Studies; Regression analysis; Severity of Illness Index; Survival Rate; Infection; Intensive care; Outcome; Severity score; Organ dysfunction; Resuscitation; International

To evaluate whether the SOFA score can be used to develop a model to predict intensive care unit (ICU) mortality in different countries. Analysis of a prospectively collected database. Patients with ICU stay longer than 2 days were studied to develop a mortality prediction model based on measurement...