Acute Crit Care.  2022 Aug;37(3):363-371. 10.4266/acc.2021.01627.

Ability of a modified Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score to predict mortality among sepsis patients in a resource-limited setting

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  • 1Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai, Thailand

Abstract

Copyright © 2022 The Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of Creative Attributions Non- Commercial License (https://creativecommons. org/li-censes/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://www.accjournal.org 363 INTRODUCTION Sepsis is a life-threatening condition and constitutes major health care problems around the world [1,2]. Sepsis was associated with nearly 20% of all global deaths, and the majority of sepsis cases occurred in low- or middle-income countries [1]. In 2017, the World Health Organization recommended actions to reduce the global burden of sepsis [2]. Sepsis has been defined as acute life-threatening organ dysfunction due to dysregulation of host responses to Background: Some variables of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score are not routinely measured in sepsis patients, especially in countries with limited resources. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of the modified SOFA (mSOFA) and compared its ability to predict mortality in sepsis patients to that of the original SOFA score.
Methods
Sepsis patients admitted to the medical intensive care unit of Songklanagarind Hospital between 2011 and 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. The primary outcome was all-cause in-hospital mortality.
Results
A total of 1,522 sepsis patients were enrolled. The mean SOFA and mSOFA scores were 9.7±4.3 and 8.8±3.9, respectively. The discrimination of the mSOFA score was significantly higher than that of the SOFA score for all-cause in-hospital mortality (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve, 0.891 [95% confidence interval, 0.875–0.907] vs. 0.879 [0.862–0.896]; P<0.001), all-cause intensive care unit (ICU) mortality (0.880 [0.863–0.898] vs. 0.871 [0.853–0.889], P=0.01) and all-cause 28-day mortality (0.887 [0.871–0.904] vs. 0.874 [0.856–0.892], P<0.001). The ability of mSOFA score to predict all-cause in-hospital and 28-day mortality was higher than that of the SOFA score within the subgroups of sepsis according to age, sepsis severity and serum lactate levels. The mSOFA score was demonstrated to have a performance similar to the original SOFA score regarding the prediction of mortality in sepsis patients with cirrhosis or hepatic dysfunction.
Conclusions
The mSOFA score was a good alternative to the original SOFA core in predicting mortality among sepsis patients admitted to the ICU.

Keyword

intensive care unit; organ failure, shock, sepsis

Figure

  • Figure 1. Study flow diagram. ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases 10th revision; MICU: medical intensive care unit; SOFA: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment.

  • Figure 2. Distribution of Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) (A) and modified SOFA (mSOFA) scores (B) and all-cause in-hospital mortalities.

  • Figure 3. Comparison of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and modified SOFA (mSOFA) areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUCs) for predicting all-cause in-hospital (A), intensive care unit (B), and 28-day mortalities (C). Values are presented as AUC (95% confidence interval).


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