K. de Vasconcellos

Predictive value of admission SOFA scores for ICU mortality: A single-centre study from a South African tertiary hospital

Background. The Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score was initially developed as a tool to quantify the degree of organ dysfunction in patients with sepsis. It is now a commonly used severity-of-illness score across a variety of settings. Although the SOFA score is versatile and simple, it has not been well...