Challenges in using the dynamic components of the SOFA score in health care databases

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¹ Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Intensive Care Unit, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Makerere University College of Health Sciences - Kampala, Uganda.
³ Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Health - Melbourne, Australia.

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[Article in English, Portuguese]

Roberta Muriel Longo Roepke et al. Crit Care Sci. 2024.

. 2024 Nov 22:36:e20240224en.

doi: 10.62675/2965-2774.20240224-en. eCollection 2024.

¹ Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Intensive Care Unit, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo - São Paulo (SP), Brazil.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Makerere University College of Health Sciences - Kampala, Uganda.
³ Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Health - Melbourne, Australia.

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