Geographic Validation of the SADFUL Scores for Identifying Bacteremia in the Unscheduled Emergency Department Revisit Cohorts
Cheng-Yi Fan, Chun-Ju Lien, Po-Lin Wang, Chi-Hsin Chen, Jiun-Wei Chen, Edward Pei-Chuan Huang, Chih-Wei Sung · 2026
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Description
Cheng-Yi Fan and co-authors published a journal article in 2026 testing a score called SADFUL for spotting blood infection in patients who return to the emergency department unplanned. Records came from two Taiwanese hospitals of different levels, covering March 2019 to December 2022. The score was compared with three simpler tools.
Blood infection was present in 2.2 percent of 5,455 returning patients. The SADFUL score scored 0.64 on an accuracy curve at the academic center, significantly beating the rival tools there. At the rural hospital it scored 0.72 but was not significantly better. Its best cut point also differed, at 2 versus 4. The authors rate all the tools as limited for this job.
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| CREATOR | Cheng-Yi Fan, Chun-Ju Lien, Po-Lin Wang, Chi-Hsin Chen, Jiun-Wei Chen, Edward Pei-Chuan Huang, Chih-Wei Sung |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35132 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |