First Author (Year)	Moskowitz A (2017) [42]
Title	Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment and Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome Criteria as Predictors of Critical Care Intervention Among Patients With Suspected Infection.
Journal	Critical Care Medicine
Reviewer	RL, CG, MB
Study sponsor	Drs. Moskowitz, Chase, Berg, and Donnino received support for the article research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Moskowitz is funded by a grant from the NIH (2T32HL007374-37). Dr. Chase is funded by a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (K23 GM101463). Dr. Shapiro received funding from Thermo Fisher, Cheetah Medical, Rapid Pathogen Screening, and Baxter. Dr. Cocchi is funded by a grant from the American Heart Association (15SDG22420010). Dr. Berg is funded by a grant from the National Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NIHLBI) (K23HL128814-01A1). Dr. Donnino is funded by a grant from the NIHLBI (1K24HL127101).
Study type	Retrospective cohort
Location	United States (January 2010 and December 2014)
Participants Number Male/Female Median age Patient group	24,164 50.9% male (Mean 63.8 (SD 18.1)) Patients admitted to ED with suspected infection (defined by the collection of any microbial cultures and initiation of antibiotics within 24 h of ED triage time
qSOFA criteria	Not defined
Primary outcome Other outcomes	“Received CCI” within 48 h of ED triage Nil
Results	AUC 0.71 (0.69–0.72) when used to predict the in-hospital mortality