Fig 1.
Flowchart of eligible patients and exclusion criteria.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of study participants according to survival at day 28.
Table 2.
Hospital admission rate and mortality at day 28 according to scores.
Table 3.
Diagnostic performances of the different scores using a cut-off or 2 or greater to predict day 28 mortality.
Fig 2.
Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for 28-day mortality.
SOFA indicates Sequential (Sepsis-related) Organ Failure Assessment; qSOFA, quick SOFA; SIRS, systemic inflammatory response syndrome. The area under the ROC curves (AUROC) for qSOFA is 0.80 (95% CI 0.73–0.87), SOFA 0.79 (95% CI 0.71–0.87) and SIRS 0.61 (95% CI 0.52–0.71).