L Nelson Sanchez-Pinto, Tellen D Bennett, Peter E DeWitt, Seth Russell, Margaret N Rebull, Blake Martin, Samuel Akech, David J Albers, Elizabeth R Alpern, Fran Balamuth, Melania Bembea, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Idris Evans, Christopher M Horvat, Juan Camilo Jaramillo-Bustamante, Niranjan Kissoon, Kusum Menon, Halden F Scott, Scott L Weiss, Matthew O Wiens, Jerry J Zimmerman, Andrew C Argent, Lauren R Sorce, Luregn J Schlapbach, R Scott Watson, Paolo Biban, Enitan Carrol, Kathleen Chiotos, Claudio Flauzino De Oliveira, Mark W Hall, David Inwald, Paul Ishimine, Michael Levin, Rakesh Lodha, Simon Nadel, Satoshi Nakagawa, Mark J Peters, Adrienne G Randolph, Suchitra Ranjit, Daniela Carla Souza, Pierre Tissieres, James L Wynn
IMPORTANCE: The Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force sought to develop and validate new clinical criteria for pediatric sepsis and septic shock using measures of organ dysfunction through a data-driven approach. OBJECTIVE: To derive and validate novel criteria for pediatric sepsis and septic shock across differently resourced settings. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Multicenter, international, retrospective cohort study in 10 health systems in the US, Colombia, Bangladesh, China, and Kenya, 3 of which were used as external validation sites...
February 27, 2024: JAMA