First Author (Year)	González del Castillo (2017) [30]
Title	Prognostic accuracy of SIRS criteria, qSOFA score and GYM score for 30-day-mortality in older non-severely dependent infected patients attended in the emergency department.
Journal	European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Reviewer	RL, CG, KH
Study sponsor	No financial support was used. The promoter of this study has been the Infectious Disease Group of the Spanish Emergency Medicine Society. This group has received financial support from Merck, Tedec-Meiji, Pfizer, Thermo Fisher, Laboratorios Rubio and Novartis in the last year to organize conferences and group meetings. None of the authors have received any financial compensation.
Study type	Observational, prospective cohort study (1 and 22 October 2015, 12 and 19 January 2016, and 13 and 27 April 2016)
Location	Spain
Participants Number Male/Female Median age Patient group	1071 50.8% male (mean 83.6 (SD 5.6)) Patients aged 75 years or older who attended for an acute infection, who did not have severe functional dependence (Barthel index >40)
qSOFA criteria	Glasgow Coma Scale score <15, systolic blood pressure < 100 mmHg and respiratory rate ≥ 22 per min
Primary outcome Other outcomes	All-cause 30-day mortality
Results	All-cause 30-day mortality AUC 0.69 (95% CI 0.61–0.76) for the qSOFA score
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