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de Groot et al. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (2017) 25:91 DOI 10.1186/s13049-017-0436-3
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
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The most commonly used disease severity scores are inappropriate for risk stratification of older emergency department sepsis patients: an observational multi-centre study Bas de Groot1* , Frank Stolwijk1, Mats Warmerdam1, Jacinta A. Lucke1, Gurpreet K. Singh1, Mo Abbas1, Simon P. Mooijaart2,3, Annemieke Ansems4, Laura Esteve Cuevas4 and Douwe Rijpsma5
Abstract Background: Sepsis recognition in older emergency department (ED) patients is difficult due to atypical symptom presentation. We therefore investigated whether the prognostic and discriminative performance of the five most commonly used disease severity scores were appropriate for risk stratification of older ED sepsis patients (≥70 years) compared to a younger control group (
