INTRODUCTION Simplified Acute Physiology Score 3 (SAPS 3) was the first critical care prognostic model developed from worldwide data. We aimed to systematically review studies that assessed the prognostic performance of SAPS 3 general and customized models for predicting hospital mortality in adult patients admitted to the ICU. METHODS Medline, Lilacs, Scielo and Google Scholar were searched ...

INTRODUCTION We conducted the present study to assess the validity of mortality prediction systems in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with severe sepsis and septic shock. We included Acute Physiology and Health Evaluation (APACHE) II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II, Mortality Probability Model (MPM) II0 and MPM II24 in our evaluation. In addition, SAPS II and MPM...

BACKGROUND The implementation of structural adjustment programs (SAPs) in developing countries has been followed by a marked reduction in their progress on economic growth, health outcomes, and social indicators. Comprehensive and contextualized explorations of the effects of SAPs are needed to assist health and social policy-makers in better determining responses to such programs that continue...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate SAPS 3 performance in Spain, assessing discrimination and calibration in a multicenter study. DESIGN A prospective, multicenter study was carried out. PATIENTS AND SETTING A prospective cohort study was performed in Spanish hospitals between 2006 and 2011. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS A total of 2171 patients were included in the study. The mean age was 61.4±16.09 years,...

Background: Tools to measure quality are becoming widespread and focus either on the outcomes of care or the processes of care. For intensive care units (ICUs), the main focus on research on outcome measurement has been on the development of mortality prediction models. Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of three general severity-of-illness scores, Acute Physiology a...

BACKGROUND Intermediate Care Units (ImCU) have become an alternative scenario to perform Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV). The limited number of prognostic studies in this population support the need of mortality prediction evaluation in this context. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to analyze the performance of Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II and 3 in patients undergoing N...

INTRODUCTION Current prognostic models for intensive care unit (ICU) patients have not been specifically developed or validated in the very elderly. The aim of this study was to develop a prognostic model for ICU patients 80 years old or older to predict in-hospital mortality by means of data obtained within 24 hours after ICU admission. Aside from having good overall performance, the model was...

Operative decision in American Society of Anesthesiology Physical Status (ASA-PS) V patient is difficult as this group of patients expected to have high mortality rate. Another risk scoring system in this ASA-PS V subset of patients can aid to ease this decision. Data of ASA-PS V classified patients between 2011 and 2013 years in a single hospital were analyzed in this study. Predicted mortalit...

PURPOSE The present study was conducted to evaluate the obstetric admissions to the intensive care unit (ICU) in the setting of a tertiary referral hospital in an attempt to identify the risk factors influencing maternal outcome. MATERIALS AND METHODS All of the obstetric patients who seeked care for delivery at the emergency department and who were admitted to the ICU between January 2006 to...