• Am J Med Qual · Jan 2018

    Multicenter Study Observational Study

    Quick Sequential [Sepsis-Related] Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) and St. John Sepsis Surveillance Agent to Detect Patients at Risk of Sepsis: An Observational Cohort Study.

    • Robert C Amland and Bharat B Sutariya.
    • 1 Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO.
    • Am J Med Qual. 2018 Jan 1; 33 (1): 50-57.

    AbstractThe 2016 Sepsis-3 guidelines included the Quick Sequential [Sepsis-related] Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) tool to identify patients at risk of sepsis. The objective was to compare the utility of qSOFA to the St. John Sepsis Surveillance Agent among patients with suspected infection. The primary outcomes were in-hospital mortality or admission to the intensive care unit. A multiple center observational cohort study design was used. The study population comprised 17 044 hospitalized patients between January and March 2016. For the primary analysis, receiver operator characteristic curves were constructed for patient outcomes using qSOFA and the St. John Sepsis Surveillance Agent, and the areas under the curve were compared against a baseline risk model. Time-to-event clinical process modeling also was applied. The St. John Sepsis Surveillance Agent, when compared to qSOFA, activated earlier and was more accurate in predicting patient outcomes; in this regard, qSOFA fell far behind on both objectives.

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