Assessment of disease-severity scoring systems for patients with sepsis in general internal medicine departments

Table 1 Parameters required for the calculations of the examined scores

	MEWS	REMS	MEDS	SCS
Age		X	X	X
Nursing home resident			X	X
Mental status			X	X
Functional status				X
Terminal illness			X
Diabetes (type I or II)				X
Lower respiratory tract infection			X
New stroke on presentation				X
Heart rate	X	X		X
Temperature	X	X		X
Systolic blood pressure	X			X
Mean arterial pressure		X
Respiratory rate	X	X	X	X
Peripheral oxygen saturation		X	X	X
AVPU score	X
Glasgow coma scale		X
Coma without intoxication or overdose				X
Breathless on presentation				X
Septic shock			X
Abnormal ECG				X
Platelet count			X
Percent bands in differential count			X

AVPU, alert, responding to voice, responding to pain, unconscious; MEDS, mortality in emergency medicine sepsis score; MEWS, modified early warning score; REMS, rapid emergency medicine score; SCS, simple clinical score.

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