Association of clinical prediction scores with hospital mortality in an adult medical and surgical intensive care unit in Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Mortality prediction among critically ill patients in resource limited settings is difficult. Identifying the best mortality prediction tool is important for counseling patients and families, benchmarking quality improvement efforts, and defining severity of illness for clinical research studies.

Objective

Compare predictive capacity of the Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS), Universal Vital Assessment (UVA), Tropical Intensive Care Score (TropICS), Rwanda Mortality Probability Model (R-MPM), and quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA) for hospital mortality among adults admitted to a medical-surgical intensive care unit (ICU) in rural Kenya. We performed a pre-planned subgroup analysis among ICU patients with suspected infection.

Design setting and

SUBMITTER: Brotherton BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10113620 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature