Development and Performance of Electronic Pediatric Risk of Mortality and Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction-2 Automated Acuity Scores.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Develop and test the performance of electronic version of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Pediatric Risk of Mortality-IV and electronic version of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction-2 scores.

Design

Retrospective, single-center cohort derived from structured electronic health record data.

Setting

Large, quaternary PICU at a freestanding, university-affiliated children's hospital.

Patients

All encounters with a PICU admission between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2017, identified using electronic definitions of inpatient encounter.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

The main outcome was predictive validity of each score for hospital mortality, assessed as model discriminati

SUBMITTER: Horvat CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7115250 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature