Table 5.
AUROCs for In-Hospital Mortality for qSOFA in External Data Sets
| Data Set and Infection Type | No. of Patients With Suspected Infection |
AUROC (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline Model | Baseline Model + qSOFA | ||
| KPNC (all suspected infections) | 321 380 | 0.67 (0.67–0.67) | 0.78 (0.78–0.78) |
| ICU patients | 7031 | 0.64 (0.62–0.66) | 0.72 (0.70–0.73) |
| Non-ICU patients | 314 349 | 0.68 (0.67–0.68) | 0.78 (0.78–0.79) |
| VA (all suspected infections)a | 377 325 | 0.73 (0.73–0.74) | 0.78 (0.78–0.79) |
| ALERTS (hospital-acquired infections) | 1186 | 0.55 (0.51–0.60) | 0.73 (0.69–0.77) |
| KCEMS (community-acquired infections) | 6508 | 0.59 (0.57–0.62) | 0.71 (0.69–0.73) |
Abbreviations: AUROC, area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; ICU, intensive care unit; KCEMS, King County Emergency Medical Services; KPNC, Kaiser Permanente Northern California; qSOFA, quick Sequential [Sepsis-related] Organ Function Assessment; VA, Veterans Administration.
a
The VA data did not include Glasgow Coma Scale scores; the qSOFA is a modified 2-variable model (systolic blood pressure and respiratory rate only), with a range from 0 to 2 points.