The Patient- And Nutrition-Derived Outcome Risk Assessment Score (PANDORA): Development of a Simple Predictive Risk Score for 30-Day In-Hospital Mortality Based on Demographics, Clinical Observation, and Nutrition.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a simple scoring system to predict 30 day in-hospital mortality of in-patients excluding those from intensive care units based on easily obtainable demographic, disease and nutrition related patient data.

Methods

Score development with general estimation equation methodology and model selection by P-value thresholding based on a cross-sectional sample of 52 risk indicators with 123 item classes collected with questionnaires and stored in an multilingual online database.

Setting

Worldwide prospective cross-sectional cohort with 30 day in-hospital mortality from the nutritionDay 2006-2009 and an external validation sample from 2012.

Results

We included 43894 patients from 2480 units in 32 countries. 1631(3.72%) patients died within 30 days in

SUBMITTER: Hiesmayr M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4441510 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature