Validation of a Simple Score for Mortality Prediction in a Cohort of Unselected Emergency Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prognostication is an important component of medical decision-making. A patients' general prognosis can be difficult to measure. The Simple Prognostic Score (SPS) was designed to include patients' age, mobility, aggregated vital signs, and the treating physician's decision to admit to aid prognostication. Study Aim. Our study aim is to validate the SPS, compare it with the Emergency Severity Index (ESI) regarding its prognostic performance, and test the interrater reliability of the subjective variable of the decision to admit.

Methods

Over a period of 9 weeks all patients presenting to the ED were included, routinely interviewed, final disposition registered, and followed up for one year. The C-statistics of discrimination was used to compare SPS and ESI p

SUBMITTER: Busch JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9525775 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature