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The second objective is to study the predictive ability of the aforementioned scores in septic-shock and in-hospital mortality.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Prospective, ambulance-based, and multicenter cohort study, developed by the emergency medical services, among patients (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u2009535) with suspected infection transferred by ambulance with high-priority to the emergency department (ED). The study enrolled 40 ambulances and 4 ED in Spain between 1 January 2020, and 30 September 2021. All the variables used in the scores, in addition to socio-demographic data, standard vital signs, prehospital analytical parameters (glucose, lactate, and creatinine) were collected. For the evaluation of the scores, the discriminative power, calibration curve and decision curve analysis (DCA) were used.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The mSOFA outperformed the other two scores for mortality, presenting the following AUCs: 0.877 (95%CI 0.841\u20130.913), 0.761 (95%CI 0.706\u20130.816), 0.731 (95%CI 0.674\u20130.788), for mSOFA, NEWS, and qSOFA, respectively. No differences were found for sepsis nor septic shock, but mSOFA\u2019s AUCs was higher than the one of the other two scores. The calibration curve and DCA presented similar results.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The use of mSOFA could provide and extra insight regarding the short-term mortality and sepsis diagnostic, backing its recommendation in the prehospital scenario.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fmed.2023.1149736","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,18]],"date-time":"2023-04-18T05:46:17Z","timestamp":1681796777000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Prehospital qSOFA, mSOFA, and NEWS2 performance for sepsis prediction: A prospective, multi-center, cohort 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