Performance of bedside tools for predicting infection-related mortality and administrative data for sepsis surveillance: An observational cohort study.

For ward patients (n = 571) who were not admitted to critical care during the 48hrs pre or post onset of infection NEWS predicted 30-day mortality (AUROC 0.80, 95%CI 0.73–0.86) better across all values than any other tool (SOFA, 0.73, 95%CI 0.66–0.80; SIRS, 0.70, 95% CI 0.64–0.77; qSOFA, 0.72, 95%CI 0.65–0.80), although the difference for SOFA was not quite statistically significant (DeLong’s p = 0.07), in predicting 30-day mortality but performed significantly better than SIRS (p = 0.003) or qSOFA (p = 0.007).

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