• Pak J Med Sci · Mar 2021

    Comparison of within 7 Day All-Cause Mortality among HDU Patients with Modified Early Warning Score of ≥5 with those with Score of <5.

    • Majid Ahmed Shaikh, Avinash Punshi, Mohan Lal Talreja, Tazeen Rasheed, Nimrah Bader, and Bader Faiyaz Zuberi.
    • Majid Ahmed Shaikh, FCPS, Department of Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.
    • Pak J Med Sci. 2021 Mar 1; 37 (2): 515-519.

    ObjectiveTo compare 7-Day All-Cause Mortality among HDU Patients with Modified Early Warning Score of ≥5 with Those with Score of <5.MethodsAll patients of age more than 18 years, of either gender admitted in HDU of Medical Unit-II, CHK between September 2019 to February 2020 were included. MEWS was calculated for each patient at time of admission. Patients with MEWS score of ≥5 were allocated to Group-A and those with score of <5 were allocated to Group-B. Patients were followed for seven days and outcome status of alive, expired or discharged was noted.ResultsTotal of 336 patients were selected out of which 168 patients was inducted in Group-A and 168 patients in Group-B. MEWS Score in patients who expired was significantly higher (Mdn=11) than in those who survived (Mdn=4), p <.001. 7-day mortality in Group-A was 62 (39.9%) while in Group-B was 40 (23.8%). ROC was plotted of MEWS Score for mortality, it showed significant area under curve of 68.4% (p <.001, 95% CI = .62 to .75). MEWS Score of 3.5 showed sensitivity of 89.2% and specificity of 65%.ConclusionOur results show that MEWS has a positive trend to predict mortality. MEWS score of 3.5 is suggested cut off based on ROC in our study.Copyright: © Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences.

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