title: Prognostic Accuracy of Sepsis-3 Criteria for In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients With Suspected Infection Presenting to the Emergency Department.
abstract: An international task force recently redefined the concept of sepsis. This task force recommended the use of the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) score instead of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) criteria to identify patients at high risk of mortality. However, these new criteria have not been prospectively validated in some settings, and their added value in the emergency department remains unknown.
  
  
  
  To prospectively validate qSOFA as a mortality predictor and compare the performances of the new sepsis criteria to the previous ones.
  
  
  
  International prospective cohort study, conducted in France, Spain, Belgium, and Switzerland between May and June 2016. In the 30 participating emergency departments, for a 4-week period, consecutive patients who visited the emergency departments with suspected infection were included. All variables from previous and new definitions of sepsis were collected. Patients were followed up until hospital discharge or death.
  
  
  
  Measurement of qSOFA, SOFA, and SIRS.
  
  
  
  In-hospital mortality.
  
  
  
  Of 1088 patients screened, 879 were included in the analysis. Median age was 67 years (interquartile range, 47-81 years), 414 (47%) were women, and 379 (43%) had respiratory tract infection. Overall in-hospital mortality was 8%: 3% for patients with a qSOFA score lower than 2 vs 24% for those with qSOFA score of 2 or higher (absolute difference, 21%; 95% CI, 15%-26%). The qSOFA performed better than both SIRS and severe sepsis in predicting in-hospital mortality, with an area under the receiver operating curve (AUROC) of 0.80 (95% CI, 0.74-0.85) vs 0.65 (95% CI, 0.59-0.70) for both SIRS and severe sepsis (P < .001; incremental AUROC, 0.15; 95% CI, 0.09-0.22). The hazard ratio of qSOFA score for death was 6.2 (95% CI, 3.8-10.3) vs 3.5 (95% CI, 2.2-5.5) for severe sepsis.
  
  
  
  Among patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected infection, the use of qSOFA resulted in greater prognostic accuracy for in-hospital mortality than did either SIRS or severe sepsis. These findings provide support for the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) criteria in the emergency department setting.
  
  
  
  clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT02738164.
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Paris Univ-06, Paris, France2Emergency Department, Hôpital Pitie-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Paris, France.
authors.forename: Yonathan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Freund
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Hôpital Pitie-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Paris, France.
authors.forename: Najla
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lemachatti
authors.affiliation: Plateforme de recherche clinique de l'est parisien (URCEST-CRCEST), Hôpital St Antoine, APHP, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Evguenia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Krastinova
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van Laer
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Princess Grace Hospital, Monte-Carlo, Monaco.
authors.forename: Yann-Erick
authors.initials: YE
authors.lastname: Claessens
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Centre hospitalo-universitaire, Dijon, France.
authors.forename: Aurélie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Avondo
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Hôpital Pasteur, Nice, France.
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Occelli
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Anne-Laure
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Feral-Pierssens
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Hôpital Lariboisière, APHP, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Truchot
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Mar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Centre hospitalo-universitaire, Angers, France.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Carneiro
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Hôpital Tenon, APHP, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pernet
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Centre hospitalo-universitaire, Nîmes, France.
authors.forename: Pierre-Géraud
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Claret
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Fabrice
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dami
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Barts Health NHS trust, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bloom
authors.affiliation: Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Paris Univ-06, Paris, France2Emergency Department, Hôpital Pitie-Salpêtrière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (APHP), Paris, France.
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Riou
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Hôpital Ambroise-Paré, Boulogne, France, and Paris Diderot University, INSERM UMRS 1144, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beaune
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D019540:Area Under Curve; D001530:Belgium; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007239:Infections / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016011:Normal Distribution; D063305:Organ Dysfunction Scores; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012372:ROC Curve; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000401:mortality; D018805:Sepsis / Q000401:mortality*; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013030:Spain; D013557:Switzerland