• Indian J Crit Care Med · Dec 2016

    Validation of a prognostic score for mortality in elderly patients admitted to Intensive Care Unit.

    • Luis Alejandro Sánchez-Hurtado, Adrian Ángeles-Veléz, Brigette Carmen Tejeda-Huezo, Juan Carlos García-Cruz, and Teresa Juárez-Cedillo.
    • Department of Critical Care Medicine, Hospital Especialidades "Antonio Fraga Mouret" Centro Médico Nacional La Raza Mexican, Institute of Social Security, Mexico City, Mexico; Department of Critical Care Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City, Mexico.
    • Indian J Crit Care Med. 2016 Dec 1; 20 (12): 695-700.

    ContextThe performance of a prognostic score must be evaluated prior to being used. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the predictive ability of hospital mortality of Simplified Acute Physiology Score 3 (SAPS 3) score in elderly patients admitted to Intensive Care Units (ICUs).AimsThe aim of the present study was to evaluate the SAPS 3 score predictive ability of hospital mortality in elderly patients admitted to ICU.Settings And DesignThis study was conducted as a prospective cohort, in two mixed ICUs.Patients And MethodsTwo hundred and eleven elderly patients were included.InterventionsNone. We compared the predictive accuracy of SAPS 3 measured at the first hour at ICU and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) measured with the worst values in the first 24 h at ICU. The patients were followed until hospital discharge.Statistical Analysis UsedEvaluation of discrimination through area under curve receiver operating characteristic (aROC) and calibration by Hosmer-Lemeshow (HL) test.ResultsThe median age was 68 years. The hospital mortality rate was 35.54%. The mean value of SAPS 3 was 62.54 ± 12.51 and APACHE II was 17.46 ± 6.77. The mortality predicted by APACHE II was 24.98 ± 19.96 and for standard SAPS 3 equation 41.18 ± 22.34. The discrimination for SAPS 3 model was aROC = 0.68 (0.62-0.75) and to APACHE II aROC = 0.70 (0.63-0.78). Calibration: APACHE II with HL 10.127 P = 0.26, and standard SAPS 3 equation HL 7.204 P = 0.51.ConclusionsIn this study, the prognostic model of SAPS 3 was not found to be accurate in predicting mortality in geriatric patients requiring ICU admission.

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