Table 7.
Comparison between the new scoring system and the previous scoring system by analyzing patients differently classified using the two systems
| Discrepancy pattern | Number of patients | 12 months |
24 months |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dead | Surviving | Dead | Surviving | ||
| Low-risk group | |||||
| Low risk in new system but intermediate risk in previous system | 60 | 7 | 53 | 161 | 41 |
| Low risk in previous system but intermediate risk in new system | 23 | 72 | 13 | 12 | 8 |
| Fisher's exact test | P < 0.001 | P = 0.001 | |||
| High-risk group | |||||
| High risk in new system but intermediate risk in previous system | 65 | 59 | 6 | 62 | 3 |
| High risk in previous system but intermediate risk in new system | 96 | 463 | 44 | 674 | 22 |
| Fisher's exact test | P < 0.001 | P = 0.001 | |||
1
Three patients were censored within 24 months.
2
Three patients were censored within 12 months.
3
Six patients were censored within 12 months.
4
Seven patients were censored within 24 months.