SAPS 3--From evaluation of the patient to evaluation of the intensive care unit. Part 2: Development of a prognostic model for hospital mortality at ICU admission.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a model to assess severity of illness and predict vital status at hospital discharge based on ICU admission data.

Design

Prospective multicentre, multinational cohort study.

Patients and setting

A total of 16,784 patients consecutively admitted to 303 intensive care units from 14 October to 15 December 2002.

Measurements and results

ICU admission data (recorded within +/-1 h) were used, describing: prior chronic conditions and diseases; circumstances related to and physiologic derangement at ICU admission. Selection of variables for inclusion into the model used different complementary strategies. For cross-validation, the model-building procedure was run five times, using randomly selected four fifths of the sample as a development- and th

SUBMITTER: Moreno RP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1315315 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature