Electronic sepsis screening among patients admitted to hospital wards (10 December 2024)

Summary

This article in JAMA aimed to assess whether electronic sepsis screening based on quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score (qSOFA), compared with no screening, reduces the mortality of patients admitted to hospital wards. It was carried out as a stepped-wedge, cluster randomised trial at five hospitals in Saudi Arabia. The results show that among hospitalised ward patients, electronic sepsis screening compared with no screening resulted in significantly lower in-hospital 90-day mortality.