Validation of END-of-life ScorING-system to identify the dying patient: a prospective analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The "END-of-Life ScorING-System" (ENDING-S) was previously developed to identify patients at high-risk of dying in the ICU and to facilitate a practical integration between palliative and intensive care. The aim of this study is to prospectively validate ENDING-S in a cohort of long-term critical care patients.

Materials and methods

Adult long-term ICU patients (with a length-of-stay> 4 days) were considered for this prospective multicenter observational study. ENDING-S and SOFA score were calculated daily and evaluated against the patient's ICU outcome. The predictive properties were evaluated through a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis.

Results

Two hundred twenty patients were enrolled for this study. Among these, 21.46% died during the ICU

SUBMITTER: Villa G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7068991 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature