Comparative assessment of the predictive ability of the nSOFA and NEOMOD scales in preterm newborns

BACKGROUND: A life-threatening organ dysfunction is a strong predictor of in-hospital mortality and adverse outcomes in pediatric patients full-term neonates. Predictors multiple-organ failure preterm newborns have not yet been sufficiently determined.
 AIM: To compare the discriminatory ability neonatal sequential (nSOFA) NEOMOD scales as predictors poor very newborns.
 MATERIALS AND METHODS: This prospective observational study included 109 with birth weight 1071 (7721451) g gestational age 29 (2632) weeks; 22 (20.4%) them died.
 RESULTS: The area under receiver operating characteristic curve was 0.796 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.7630.827) for nSOFA scale 0.771 CI 0.7210.817) scale.
 CONCLUSIONS. Both are suitable measuring severity newborns. appears to predict