Mortality prediction upon hospital admission - the value of clinical assessment: A retrospective, matched cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Accurate prediction of mortality upon hospital admission is of great value, both for the sake of patients and appropriate resources' allocation. A myriad of assessment tools exists for this purpose. The evidence relating to the comparative value of clinical assessment versus established indexes are scarce. We analyzed the accuracy of a senior physician's clinical assessment in a retrospective cohort of patients in a crude, general patients' population and later on a propensity matched patients' population. In one department of internal medicine in a tertiary hospital, of 9891 admitted patients, 973 (10%) were categorized as prone to death in a 6-months' duration by a senior physician. The risk of death was significantly higher for these patients [73.1% vs 14.1% mortality within 180 days; h

SUBMITTER: Glick N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9524893 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature