First Author (Year)	Park HK (2017) [44]
Title	Quick sequential organ failure assessment compared to systemic inflammatory response syndrome for predicting sepsis in emergency department.
Journal	Journal of Critical Care
Reviewer	RL, CG, MB
Study sponsor	Nil
Study type	Retrospective cohort March 07–February 16
Location	Seoul Korea
Participants Number Male/Female Median age Patient group	1009 45% male (Mean 67.4 ± 17.6) Patients (≥18 years) with a suspected infection that was identified by using a combination of antibiotics (oral or parenteral) and body fluid cultures (blood, urine, cerebrospinal fluid, etc.)
qSOFA criteria	respiratory rate ≥22/min, systolic blood pressure ≤100 mm Hg, and altered mentation (all cases except ‘alert’ were judged to have altered mentation)
Primary outcome Other outcomes	Increase of 2 or more SOFA points within 24 h of ED admission In-hospital mortality
Results	In-hospital mortality AUC 0.733 for qSOFA
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