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Bad news for sepsis-3.0: qSOFA fails validation

emcrit.org January 16, 2017

Sepsis 3.0 replaced the SIRS criteria with a new risk-stratification tool, qSOFA. qSOFA was initially developed within the Sepsis-3 publication itself. Until now, qSOFA has never been validated. The value of qSOFA vs. SIRS remains controversial.

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