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The SOFA (Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment) score to describe organ dysfunction/failure

J. Vincent, R. Moreno, J. Takala, S. Willatts, A. Mendonça, H. Bruining, C. Reinhart, P. Suter, L. Thijs

1996.7.1INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

DOI: 10.1007/bf01709751

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A so-called sepsis-related organ failure assessment (SOFA) score is created to describe quantitatively and as objectively as possible the degree of organ dysfunction/failure over time in groups of patients or even in individual patients.

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VINCENT, J., et al. The SOFA (sepsis-related organ failure assessment) score to describe organ dysfunction/failure. INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE, 1996, 22: 707–710.