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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Prognostic accuracy of age-adapted SOFA, SIRS, PELOD-2, and qSOFA for in-hospital mortality among children with suspected infection admitted to the intensive care unit |
Author: | Schlapbach, L.J. Straney, L. Bellomo, R. MacLaren, G. Pilcher, D. |
Citation: | Intensive Care Medicine, 2018; 44(2):179-188 |
Publisher: | Springer |
Issue Date: | 2018 |
ISSN: | 0342-4642 1432-1238 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Luregn J. Schlapbach, Lahn Straney, Rinaldo Bellomo, Graeme MacLaren, David Pilcher |
Abstract: | PURPOSE:The Sepsis-3 consensus task force defined sepsis as life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by dysregulated host response to infection. However, the clinical criteria for this definition were neither designed for nor validated in children. We validated the performance of SIRS, age-adapted SOFA, quick SOFA and PELOD-2 scores as predictors of outcome in children. METHODS:We performed a multicentre binational cohort study of patients < 18 years admitted with infection to ICUs in Australia and New Zealand. The primary outcome was ICU mortality. SIRS, age-adapted SOFA, quick SOFA and PELOD-2 scores were compared using crude and adjusted area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) analysis. RESULTS:Of 2594 paediatric ICU admissions due to infection, 151 (5.8%) children died, and 949/2594 (36.6%) patients died or experienced an ICU length of stay ≥ 3 days. A ≥ 2-point increase in the individual score was associated with a crude mortality increase from 3.1 to 6.8% for SIRS, from 1.9 to 7.6% for age-adapted SOFA, from 1.7 to 7.3% for PELOD-2, and from 3.9 to 8.1% for qSOFA (p < 0.001). The discrimination of outcomes was significantly higher for SOFA (adjusted AUROC 0.829; 0.791-0.868) and PELOD-2 (0.816; 0.777-0.854) than for qSOFA (0.739; 0.695-0.784) and SIRS (0.710; 0.664-0.756). CONCLUSIONS:SIRS criteria lack specificity to identify children with infection at substantially higher risk of mortality. We demonstrate that adapting Sepsis-3 to age-specific criteria performs better than Sepsis-2-based criteria. Our findings support the translation of Sepsis-3 into paediatric-specific sepsis definitions and highlight the importance of robust paediatric organ dysfunction characterization. |
Keywords: | Childhood; critical care; mortality; infection; PELOD; sepsis; SIRS; SOFA; scores |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00134-017-5021-8 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/606978 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-5021-8 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Public Health publications |
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