November 1, 1998Critical Care Medicine
Use of the SOFA score to assess the incidence of organ dysfunction/failure in intensive care units
Population
Critically ill patients in intensive care units
Design
Other
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May support standardized organ dysfunction monitoring in critical care; leaves open randomized validation of outcome impact.
Structured PICO
P
Population
Critically ill patients in intensive care units
I
Intervention
SOFA score assessment
O
Outcome
Incidence of organ dysfunction/failure
The SOFA score provides a standardized method to monitor organ dysfunction in critically ill patients, facilitating clinical monitoring and trials.
Cite This Study
Vincent et al. (1998) studied this question.