Why the study?
How do different multiple organ dysfunction scores compare in predicting hospital mortality in critically ill patients?
Population
520 critically ill patients admitted to a medical-surgical intensive care unit who stayed >4 hours
Comparison
Multiple organ dysfunction scores vs Comparison between the different scoring systems
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
Until hospital discharge or death
Authors
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Comparable organ dysfunction scores support risk adjustment in research; leaves open optimal choice for clinical prognostication.
How do different multiple organ dysfunction scores compare in predicting hospital mortality in critically ill patients?
Day-1, daily maximum, and total maximum multiple organ dysfunction scores have comparable and good discriminative power for predicting hospital mortality in critically ill patients.
Pettilä et al. (2002) studied this question.
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