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Krebs ED, Hassinger TE, Guidry CA, Berry PS, Elwood NR, Sawyer RG. Non-utility of sepsis scores for identifying infection in surgical intensive care unit patients. American journal of surgery. 2018 Dec 8.
The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and quick SOFA (qSOFA) scores replaced the Systemic Inflammatory Response System (SIRS) criteria for defining sepsis, and are often utilized to identify infection, however remain understudied in surgical populations.