Rev Invest Clin
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Comparative Study
Mortality predictive indexes in non-critical inpatients.
Mortality predictive indexes have not been applied to patients in general wards out of the ICU. ⋯ The three evaluated indexes each had a good discriminative capacity to detect non-critical inpatients with high risk to die. SAPS II was the best index to predict mortality, as determined by both the bivariate and the calibration analysis. There is no reason for not using mortality predictive indexes for non-critical inpatients.