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Use of scoring systems to assess patients with surgical sepsis
1University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.
The Surgical Clinics of North America
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
Several scoring systems for patients with severe surgical infections are described, compared, and contrasted. All show a strong relation between a high score and high mortality risk. Each has strengths and weaknesses. All of the systems need further refinement. Future investigations of patients with serious infections should incorporate one of the published severity scores as part of the patient description.