Article: Classifying sepsis patients in the emergency department using SIRS, qSOFA or MEWS (full text) - May 2018 - NJM
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BMJ Best Practice on X: "There is ongoing debate about the most appropriate criteria for diagnosing #sepsis in clinical practice, with several different approaches suggested. These include use of the SOFA score.
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