First Author (Year)	Umemura (2017) [56]
Title	Assessment of mortality by qSOFA in patients with sepsis outside ICU: A post hoc subgroup analysis by the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine Sepsis Registry Study Group.
Journal	Journal of Infection and Chemotherapy
Reviewer	RL, CG, MB
Study sponsor	Nil
Study type	Prospectively Collected Data Retrospective Cohort
Location	Japan
Participants Number Male/Female Median age Patient group	387 59.7% male ? Adults diagnosed with ‘severe sepsis’ as defined in 2003
qSOFA criteria	Altered mental status (Glasgow Coma Scale score of ≤14), systolic blood pressure of less than or equal to 100 mmHg, and a respiratory rate of at least 22 breaths/min
Primary outcome Other outcomes	All-cause in-hospital mortality ?
Results	In-hospital mortality AUC 0.615 for qSOFA
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