Evidence
Original publication
Seymour CW, Liu VX, Iwashyna TJ, et al. Assessment of clinical criteria for sepsis: for the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3).
JAMA, 2016
Guideline
Singer M, Deutschman CS, Seymour CW, et al. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3). Defines qSOFA as a prompt to consider sepsis and escalate assessment, not a diagnostic or rule-out test.
JAMA, 2016
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