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. 2015 Jul 21;23(2):339–348. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv091

Table 8:

ROC AUC (c-statistic) prediction results for clinical outcomes based on 1897 validation patients’ first 24 h of query clinical items.

Property Death ICU Life Support Hospital Discharge / Length of Stay Readmission
Evaluation period 30 days 2 days 4 days 1 week 2 days 4 days 1 week 2 week 30 days
Patients included 1890 1772 1772 1772 1742 1742 1742 1742 1890
Patients w/outcome, n (%) 35 (1.9) 17 (1.0) 28 (1.6) 41 (2.3) 387 (22.2) 1020 (58.6) 1380 (79.2) 1570 (90.1) 157 (8.3)
ROC AUC (c-stat) 0.84 0.87 0.83 0.84 0.69 0.75 0.80 0.82 0.68
ROC AUC 95% CI 0.75-0.94 0.80-0.95 0.76-0.90 0.79- 0.89 0.66-0.72 0.72-0.77 0.78-0.83 0.79-0.85 0.64-0.73
Related Prediction Models APACHE, MPM, SAPS 38 CURB-65, PSI, SCAP, REA-ICU 39 Tu et al. 40 , ISS, NISS, 41 CSI 42 Amarasingham et al., 43 , LACE, 44 CMS 45
ROC AUC for Related 0.75-0.90 0.69-0.81 0.69 (Only Tu et al. reports as ROC AUC) 0.56-0.72

Confidence intervals (95%) empirically estimated by bootstrapping 1000 data samples with replacement. ROC = Receiver Operating Characteristic; AUC = Area Under Curve; CI = Confidence Interval; APACHE = Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; MPM = Mortality Probability Models; SAPS = Simplified Acute Physiology Score; CURB-65 = Confusion, Urea, Respiratory Rate, Blood Pressure, 65 Years Old; PSI = Pneumonia Severity Index; SCAP = Severity Community-Acquired Pneumonia; REA-ICU = Risk of Early Admission to ICU; ISS = Injury Severity Score; NISS = New Injury Severity Score; CSI = Computerized Severity Index; LACE = Length of Stay, Acuity, Comorbidity, Emergency Department Use; CMS = Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services