pSOFA score serves as predicting the severity and outcome of sepsis in critically ill children
Li-dan Zhang, Li Wang, Yu-hui Wu, Hong-xin Lin, Xing Nie, Ye-qin Xu, Wen Tang, Yu-xiong Guo, Yu-cai Cheng · 2025
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Li-dan Zhang and co-authors tested a scoring system that rates organ failure in very sick children, to see how well it predicts the course of sepsis. Sepsis is a life-threatening response to infection, and children in intensive care need early, accurate risk scores. The score studied is a child version of a widely used adult organ failure scale.
The team reviewed records of children with sepsis treated at two hospitals between late 2014 and late 2019. They compared the score with three other child risk scores and charted how well each predicted death. Their charts compare accuracy across all four tools on the same patients. A score that warns early and reliably can help doctors plan care and counsel families.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Li-dan Zhang, Li Wang, Yu-hui Wu, Hong-xin Lin, Xing Nie, Ye-qin Xu, Wen Tang, Yu-xiong Guo, Yu-cai Cheng |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |