The SOFA (Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment) score to describe organ dysfunction/failure. On behalf of the Working Group on Sepsis-Related Problems of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

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Published in Intensive Care Med on July 01, 1996

Authors

J L Vincent1, R Moreno, J Takala, S Willatts, A De Mendonça, H Bruining, C K Reinhart, P M Suter, L G Thijs

Author Affiliations

1: Erasme University Hospital, Brussels, Belgium.

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