Investigating the Impact of Different Suspicion of Infection Criteria on the Accuracy of Quick Sepsis-Related Organ Failure Assessment, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, and Early Warning Scores*

Abstract

The choice of criteria to define a potentially infected population significantly impacts prevalence of mortality but has little impact on accuracy. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome was the least predictive and electronic Cardiac Arrest Risk Triage the most predictive regardless of how infection was defined.