Table 2 Comparison between qSOFA and SIRS criteria prognostic accuracy in predicting in-hospital mortality.

From: Quick sequential organ failure assessment versus systemic inflammatory response syndrome criteria for emergency department patients with suspected infection

 

qSOFA

SIRS

Difference (bootstrap 95% CI)

Primary analysis

Area under the receiver operating characteristics curve

0.64

0.52

 + 0.13 (+ 0.07, + 0.18)

Secondary analysis

Net reclassification improvement analysis

  

 + 0.39 (+ 0.15, 0.57)

  1. Bootstrap estimation repeated 20,000 times (800 times per imputed dataset), to compute point estimation, and relevant 95% CI.
  2. 95% CI, 95% confidence interval, qSOFA quick sequential organ failure assessment, SIRS systemic inflammatory response syndrome, CI confidence interval.
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