Quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment to identify clinical deterioration in adults with COVID-19: a retrospective cohort
Luiz Felipe Sales Mauricio, Cassia Regina Vancini Campanharo, Luiz Humberto Vieri Piacezzi, Maria Carolina Barbosa Teixeira Lopes, Ruth Ester Assayag Batista, Luiz Felipe Sales Mauricio, Cassia Regina Vancini Campanharo, Luiz Humberto Vieri Piacezzi

TL;DR
This study evaluates how well the qSOFA score can predict clinical deterioration in adult patients with COVID-19.
Contribution
The study provides new evidence on the performance of qSOFA in detecting deterioration in hospitalized adults with COVID-19.
Findings
qSOFA had low sensitivity but high specificity before clinical deterioration events.
Patients with a positive qSOFA score were 350 times more likely to experience deterioration.
qSOFA-positive patients used more diagnostic resources and had higher mortality risk.
Abstract
to evaluate the performance of qSOFA in identifying deterioration in patients with COVID-19. retrospective cohort study conducted between February and August 2020 in the Emergency Department of a private hospital, involving 813 adults. The variables studied included sociodemographic data, clinical characteristics, deterioration, qSOFA on admission and before the event, and outcomes. The performance of qSOFA at both moments was analyzed using the area under the ROC curve. the average age was 69 years. There was a predominance of men (61.5%), white (97.2%), catholic (73.7%), married (89.6%) and employed (66%). Comorbidities were present in 69.7%, and 58.8% were classified as “urgent” upon admission. The most frequent deterioration was respiratory failure (16.7%), and the outcome was discharge (68%). Patients with positive qSOFA on admission had a higher percentage of respiratory…
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TopicsSepsis Diagnosis and Treatment · COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies · Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
