Intensive care unit mortality is strongly associated with organ failure rate and severity. The sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score is assessed to evaluate its efficacy as a diagnostic indicator. Statistical analyses investigate the SOFA score distributions in the days leading up to patient mortality and patient discharge. It is found that the SOFA score is not an effective predicto...

BACKGROUND Esophageal variceal hemorrhage (EVH) is one of the high mortality complications in cirrhotic patients. Endoscopic variceal ligation (EVL) is currently the standard therapy for EVH. However, some patients have expired during hospitalization or survived shortly after management. AIM To evaluate hospital and 6-week mortality by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve of chronic ...

BACKGROUND Liver transplantation can prolong survival in patients with end-stage liver disease. We have proposed that the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score calculated on post-transplant day 7 has a great discriminative power for predicting 1-year mortality after liver transplantation. The Chronic Liver Failure-Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (CLIF-SOFA) score, a modified SOFA...

Introduction Prognostic scores are important for clinical and administrative management of intensive care units (ICU). SOFA score was designed to describe the sequence of complications during the patient ́s stay in the ICU, not to predict outcomes. However, it has been shown that high scores on the SOFA score are associated with high mortality. ΔSOFA is a measure derived from the SOFA score defi...

A growing number of patients with liver disease are being referred for critical care support. We have recently shown that a combination of lactate and SOFA score (SOFA-L score) may provide an accurate, objective measurement of prognosis in a group of patients admitted to ICU with alcoholic liver disease. This score has not been validated in an independent patient cohort. A retrospective study w...

BACKGROUND Various scoring systems have been developed to prioritize patient admission and management in ICU. The objective of this prospective, observational cohort study was to evaluate application of one such system, the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) Score in predicting outcome in ICU patients with SIRS. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifty patients admitted to a six bed multidisciplina...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score in cases of severe maternal morbidity (SMM). DESIGN Retrospective study of diagnostic validation. Setting. An obstetric intensive care unit (ICU) in Brazil. Population. 673 women with SMM. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES mortality and SOFA score. Methods. Organ failure was evaluated according to maximum score fo...