Medicina clinica
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September 2022
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To compare the ability of qSOFA, NEWS2, SOFA, LODS, SIRS, APACHE-II and SAPS-II scores. ⋯ NEWS2 is a better predictor of mortality than qSOFA and its implementation for the early recognition of the septic patient or the patient with higher risk in the emergency and hospitalization wards should be addressed. In addition, given that SOFA and SAPS-II showed better performance and are simpler than LODS and APACHE-II, respectively, both should be considered the scores of choice in this setting.