A study to take note of for those who find themselves in the dreadful position of having to contemplate triage in response to #COVID19 or any other disaster https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776737
SOFA Score Accuracy for Determining Mortality of Severely Ill Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia

This cohort study investigates whether the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score is accurate enough to discriminate death from survival, and thus perhaps be a ventilator triage tool, for...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776737
Having recently raised similar concerns about this myself https://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Citation/2021/02000/It_Is_Time_to_Rethink_the_Role_of_the_Sequential.24.aspx
It Is Time to Rethink the Role of the Sequential Organ... : Critical Care Medicine

An abstract is unavailable.

https://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Citation/2021/02000/It_Is_Time_to_Rethink_the_Role_of_the_Sequential.24.aspx
...as well as calling for others to exercise caution in clinical decision making regarding COVID patients... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-020-06092-5 @ESICM
Managing ICU surge during the COVID-19 crisis: rapid guidelines

Given the rapidly changing nature of COVID-19, clinicians and policy makers require urgent review and summary of the literature, and synthesis of evidence-based guidelines to inform practice. The WHO...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-020-06092-5
...or in designing triage protocols for resource allocation at the population level https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(20)30691-7/fulltext?_ga=2.135041783.761386419.1613637811-814132164.1613637811 @accpchest
A colleague wrote me this morning "Mike is vindicated once more." My response was...
"Hardly vindicated, I'm actually quite sad that SOFA didn't pan out to be when it looked like it could be. Where I would say I was vindicated is in being humble enough to realise when I was wrong in the beginning, being open to new data, and listening to dissenting opinions."
Personally, I think this is where some of our colleagues may have failed. #humilityleadstheway (I owe all my lessons in humility to Tex Kissoon and my many other mentors)
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