Recently, a new version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score was introduced. Known as SOFA-2, this new definition aligns with organ dysfunction measurement in critically ill adults with current clinical practices, especially those diagnosed with sepsis. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Oct. 29 and available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840822, this revised tool updates the original 1996 SOFA score, which h...
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Recently, a new version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score was introduced. Known as SOFA-2, this new definition aligns with organ dysfunction measurement in critically ill adults with current clinical practices, especially those diagnosed with sepsis. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Oct. 29 and available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840822, this revised tool updates the original 1996 SOFA score, which h...
There just might be a reign of terror being experienced at many of America’s hospitals and health systems. Professionally delivered patient care apparently seems to be getting hijacked by auditors compelled to deny claims of omission. Aided by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and abated by auditors private and public, the lingua franca appears be an entanglement of descriptors, namely “inpatient versus outpatient.” During the next live edition of the venerated Monitor Mo...
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Recently, a new version of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score was introduced. Known as SOFA-2, this new definition aligns with organ dysfunction measurement in critically ill adults with current clinical practices, especially those diagnosed with sepsis. Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Oct. 29 and available at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2840822, this revised tool updates the original 1996 SOFA score, which h...
