Performance of three prognostic models in patients with cancer in need of intensive care in a medical center in China.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II), Simplified Acute Physiology Score 3 (SAPS 3), and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation IV (APACHE IV) in patients with cancer admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) in a single medical center in China.

Materials and methods

This is a retrospective observational cohort study including nine hundred and eighty one consecutive patients over a 2-year period.

Results

The hospital mortality rate was 4.5%. When all 981 patients were evaluated, the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC, 95% Confidential Intervals) of the three models in predicting hospital mortality were 0.948 (0.914-0.982), 0.863 (0.804-0.923), and

SUBMITTER: Xing X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4482430 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature