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Paediatric sequential organ failure assessment score (pSOFA): a plea for the world-wide collaboration for consensus

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  1. Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Shizuoka Children’s Hospital, 860 Urushiyama, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 420-8660, Japan

    Tatsuya Kawasaki

  2. Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan

    Nobuaki Shime

  3. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Lahn Straney

  4. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Rinaldo Bellomo

  5. Intensive Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia

    Rinaldo Bellomo

  6. Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore

    Graeme MacLaren

  7. Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

    Graeme MacLaren

  8. The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) Centre for Outcome and Resource Evaluation (CORE), ANZICS House, Levers Terrace, Carlton South, Melbourne, Australia

    David Pilcher

  9. Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    David Pilcher

  10. Department of Intensive Care, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia

    David Pilcher

  11. Paediatric Critical Care Research Group, Mater Research Institute and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

    Luregn J. Schlapbach

  12. Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia

    Luregn J. Schlapbach

  13. Department of Pediatrics, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Luregn J. Schlapbach

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Kawasaki, T., Shime, N., Straney, L. et al. Paediatric sequential organ failure assessment score (pSOFA): a plea for the world-wide collaboration for consensus. Intensive Care Med 44, 995–997 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5188-7

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