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Implementation of the Sepsis-3 definition in German university intensive care units
The old definition of sepsis was replaced by Sepsis-3 in February 2016. The new screening diagnostic tools sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score and quick SOFA (qSOFA) score were incorporated into t...