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Editorial
. 2017 Mar;9(3):452-454.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2017.02.99.

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, sequential organ failure assessment, and quick sequential organ failure assessment: more pieces needed in the sepsis puzzle

Bin Du  1 , Li Weng  1
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Editorial

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, sequential organ failure assessment, and quick sequential organ failure assessment: more pieces needed in the sepsis puzzle

Bin Du et al. J Thorac Dis. 2017 Mar.
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Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Figure 1
Schematic representation illustrating the difference between infection, qSOFA, and sepsis. The number of cases in each patient group was extracted from Williams et al. (7), and might be different in other settings. qSOFA, quick sequential organ failure assessment.
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