2604.01655 SEPSIS-MORT-72 v1: Transparent Pre-Validation Framework for 72-Hour Mortality in ED Sepsis
SEPSIS-MORT-72 v1: We present a pre-validation composite scoring framework for 72-hour all-cause mortality in adult ED patients meeting Sepsis-3 criteria at first measurement. Published literature reports 72-h mortality 5-15% in Sepsis-3 populations with strong lactate and SOFA gradients [Seymour 2016; Raith 2017], with effect sizes for individual modifiers reported inconsistently across study designs and grading conventions.