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Comparative Study
. 2011 Mar 1:6:21.
doi: 10.1186/1749-8090-6-21.

A comparative study of four intensive care outcome prediction models in cardiac surgery patients

Fabian Doerr  1 , Akmal Ma Badreldin, Matthias B Heldwein, Torsten Bossert, Markus Richter, Thomas Lehmann, Ole Bayer, Khosro Hekmat
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Comparative Study

A comparative study of four intensive care outcome prediction models in cardiac surgery patients

Fabian Doerr et al. J Cardiothorac Surg. .

Abstract

Background: Outcome prediction scoring systems are increasingly used in intensive care medicine, but most were not developed for use in cardiac surgery patients. We compared the performance of four intensive care outcome prediction scoring systems (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II [APACHE II], Simplified Acute Physiology Score II [SAPS II], Sequential Organ Failure Assessment [SOFA], and Cardiac Surgery Score [CASUS]) in patients after open heart surgery.

Methods: We prospectively included all consecutive adult patients who underwent open heart surgery and were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) between January 1st 2007 and December 31st 2008. Scores were calculated daily from ICU admission until discharge. The outcome measure was ICU mortality. The performance of the four scores was assessed by calibration and discrimination statistics. Derived variables (Mean- and Max- scores) were also evaluated.

Results: During the study period, 2801 patients (29.6% female) were included. Mean age was 66.9 ± 10.7 years and the ICU mortality rate was 5.2%. Calibration tests for SOFA and CASUS were reliable throughout (p-value not < 0.05), but there were significant differences between predicted and observed outcome for SAPS II (days 1, 2, 3 and 5) and APACHE II (days 2 and 3). CASUS, and its mean- and maximum-derivatives, discriminated better between survivors and non-survivors than the other scores throughout the study (area under curve ≥ 0.90). In order of best discrimination, CASUS was followed by SOFA, then SAPS II, and finally APACHE II. SAPS II and APACHE II derivatives had discrimination results that were superior to those of the SOFA derivatives.

Conclusions: CASUS and SOFA are reliable ICU mortality risk stratification models for cardiac surgery patients. SAPS II and APACHE II did not perform well in terms of calibration and discrimination statistics.

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Day 1-6: ROC-curves of CASUS, SOFA, APACHE II, SAPS II and their derivatives.
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Day 1-6: Areas under the ROC-curves of CASUS, SOFA, APACHE II and SAPS II.
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