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. 2008 Dec 17;12(6):R161. doi: 10.1186/cc7160

Table 4.

Performance for sequential SOFA.

Max SOFA AUC Brier H/C-statistics Comp. AUC H/C-statistics Mort.
Pettilä et al (2002) [17], 5 days 0.792 LODS 0.827 H
MODS 0.795 H
Junger et al (2002) [18], ICU stay 0.922 I
Bota et al (2002) [16], 24 hrs period 0.898 MODS 0.9 U
Ferreira et al (2001) [19], ICU stay 0.9 I

Total Max SOFA AUC Brier H/C-statistics Comp AUC H/C-statistics Mort.

Ho et al (2007) [11], ICU stay 0.829 0.1 C = 7.4 p = 0.496 H
Zygun et al (2005) [14], ICU stay 0.7 U = 9.2 p = 0.33 MODS 0.65 8.07 p = 0.43 H
Pettilä et al (2002) [17], ICU stay 0.816 LODS 0.839 H
MODS 0.817 H
Zygun et al (2005) [14], ICU stay 0.69 U = 7.30 p = 0.50 MODS 0.64 9.09 p = 0.33 I
Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral et al (2005) [7], ICU stay 0.84 H: p = 0.95 C: p = 0.54 I
Junger et al (2002) [18], ICU stay 0.921 I
Moreno et al (1999) [21], ICU stay 0.847 I
Janssens et al (2000) [20], ICU stay 0.86 H

Delta SOFA AUC Brier H/C-statistics Comp AUC H/C-statistics Mort.

Ho et al (2007) [11], TMS – Adm 0.635 0.12 C = 20.2 p = 0.001 H
Zygun et al (2005) [14], TMS – Adm 0.54 U = 53.48 p < 0.01 MODS 0.55 31.2 p < 0.01 H
Pettilä et al (2002) [17], day 5 – Adm 0.6 LODS 0.633 H
MODS 0.653 H
Zygun et al (2005) [14], TMS – Adm 0.51 U = 98.01 p < 0.01 MODS 0.52 70.52 p < 0.01 I
Junger et al (2002) [18], TMS – Adm 0.828 I
Moreno et al (1999) [21], TMS – Adm 0.742 I
Ferreira et al (2001) [19], 48 hrs – Adm 0.69 I
Ferreira et al (2001) [19], 96 hrs – Adm 0.62 I
Janssens et al (2000) [20], TMS – Adm 0.62 H

Mean SOFA AUC Brier H/C-statistics Comp AUC H/C-statistics Mort.

Zygun et al (2005) [14], ICU stay 0.77 U = 22.66 p < 0.01 MODS 0.74 46.13 p < 0.01 H
Zygun et al (2005) [14], ICU stay 0.79 U = 28.92 p < 0.01 MODS 0.75 42.72 p < 0.01 I
Ferreira et al (2001) [19], ICU stay 0.88 I

Total SOFA AUC Brier H/C-statistics Comp AUC H/C-statistics Mort.

Ferreira et al (2001) [19], ICU stay 0.85 I

Modified SOFA AUC Brier H/C-statistics Comp AUC H/C-statistics Mort.

Timsit et al (2002) [15], Adm 0.729 U = 11 p = 0.2 LODS 0.733 11.3 p = 0.19 H
Timsit et al (2002) [15], day 2 0.752 U = 8.3 p = 0.4 LODS 0.748 H
Timsit et al (2002) [15], day 3 0.773 U = 11.3 p = 0.19 LODS 0.761 H
Timsit et al (2002) [15], day 4 0.779 U = 7.3 p = 0.5 LODS 0.76 H
Timsit et al (2002) [15], day 5 0.763 U = 14.4 p = 0.07 LODS 0.749 H
Timsit et al (2002) [15], day 6 0.784 U = 11 p = 0.17 LODS 0.79 H
Timsit et al (2002) [15], day 7 0.768 U = 6.3 p = 0.62 LODS 0.746 H
Junger et al (2002) [18], Adm 0.799 I

Adm = admission, AUC = Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve, Comp. = Compared with, H = Hospital, H/C = H- or C- Hosmer-Lemeshow statistics, hrs = hours, I = ICU = Intensive care unit, LODS = Logistic Organ Dysfunction System, max = maximum, MODS = Multiple Organ Dysfunction Score, Mort. = Mortality, SOFA = Sequential Organ Failure Assessment, TMS = total max SOFA (always measured over entire ICU stay), U = Unspecified (mortality type or H/C statistic).