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

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pediatric Critical Care, Shizuoka Children's Hospital, 860 Urushiyama, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka, 420-8660, Japan. tatsuya-kawasaki@i.shizuoka-pho.jp.
• ² Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan.
• ³ Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁴ University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁵ Intensive Care, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁶ Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit, National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
• ⁷ Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
• 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.
• ⁹ Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• ¹⁰ Department of Intensive Care, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, VIC, Australia.
• ¹¹ Paediatric Critical Care Research Group, Mater Research Institute and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
• ¹² Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia.
• ¹³ Department of Pediatrics, Bern University Hospital, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.