Hospital mortality prediction for intermediate care patients: Assessing the generalizability of the Intermediate Care Unit Severity Score (IMCUSS).

ABSTRACT: PURPOSE:The Intermediate Care Unit Severity Score (IMCUSS) is an easy to calculate predictor of in-hospital death, and the only such tool developed for patients in the intermediate care setting. We sought to examine its external validity. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Using data from patients admitted to the intermediate care unit (IMCU) of an urban academic medical center from July to December of 2012, model discrimination and calibration for predicting in-hospital death were assessed using the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) and the Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit chi-squared (HL GOF X2) test, respectively. The standardized mortality ratio (SMR) with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) was also calculated. RESULTS:The cohort included data from 628 unique admissions to the

SUBMITTER: Hager DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7263171 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature