ICU sedation, delirium & recovery

A novel score for predicting 1‐year mortality of intensive care patients

Acta Anaesthesiol ScandPublished Prognostic model development and validation study

Authors' conclusion

Our score based on data available at intensive care unit admission predicted 1-year mortality with fairly good discrimination.

Study context

Population
Adult emergency ICU admissions, nationwide Finnish intensive care quality registry, 2012–2015
Participants
25,261 admissions
Outcome
1-year mortality (prediction score performance)
Follow-up
1 year
Methodological detailsnationwide registry, temporal validation
  • Nationwide registry
  • Temporal validation

Performance

As reported in the abstract

1-year mortality prediction (score: age, sex, preceding functional status, ICU admission type, acute illness severity, diagnoses)

AUC

0.78

95% CI 0.76–0.79

Calibration intercept

−0.01

−0.07 to 0.05

Calibration slope

0.96

0.90 to 1.02

Further findings

Alive at 1 year

Alive at 1 year
19,625 (77.7%)

Premorbid functional status

All five activities independently before ICU admission
20,628 (81.7%)

1-year functional status score 5 among survivors

Functional status score 5
8970 (81.5%)
  • Score known for 11,011 patients

Original publication

A novel score for predicting 1‐year mortality of intensive care patients. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. Published 28 September 2023. doi:10.1111/aas.14336

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