Predictive performance of comorbidity for 30-day and 1-year mortality in patients with bloodstream infection visiting the emergency department: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate whether the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) predicted short-term and long-term mortality in patients with a bloodstream infection visiting the emergency department (ED) and compare it to the often-validated National Early Warning Score (NEWS).

Design

A retrospective cohort study.

Setting

A tertiary hospital in the Netherlands.

Participants

Adult patients attending the ED with a blood culture-proven infection between 2012 and 2017 were included. We collected the comorbidities from the CCI and the vital signs from the NEWS.

Main outcomes

Short-term mortality (30-day) and long-term mortality (1 year). We assessed the predictive performance by discrimination, expressed as the area under the curve (AUC).

Results

We included 1

SUBMITTER: Schuttevaer R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8987751 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature