Why the study?
How do five intensive care severity of illness scoring systems compare in predicting hospital mortality in a Scottish ICU population?
Population
10,393 patients admitted to 22 general intensive care units in Scotland
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
until hospital discharge
Authors
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Existing ICU scores show poor calibration in Scottish patients; leaves open need for local recalibration before prognostic use.
How do five intensive care severity of illness scoring systems compare in predicting hospital mortality in a Scottish ICU population?
While SAPS II showed the best overall performance and APACHE II the best calibration, all tested ICU scoring systems demonstrated poor calibration in a Scottish cohort, suggesting the need for updated logistic regression coefficients.
Livingston et al. (2000) studied this question.
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