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The Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis: 1-year mortality rates

Authors: N Shapiro, D Bates

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 1/2004

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The Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis (MEDS) score is a previously derived, validated, and published clinical decision rule for predicting 28-day inhospital mortality. It is based on the following scoring system: underlying disease with expected fatality < 30 days or metastatic cancer (six points), tachypnea or hypoxia (three points), septic shock (three points), platelets < 150,000 (three points), bands > 5% (two points), age > 65 years (two points), lower respiratory infection (two points), nursing home resident (two points), anion gap, and altered mental status (two points). The points are added and a risk group assigned. …

Title: The Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis: 1-year mortality rates
Authors: N Shapiro
D Bates
Publication date: 01-02-2004
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2004
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/cc2803

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