Severity Scores Performance in Neurocritical Care A Retrospective Cohort Study

Alexandre Guimaraes de Almeida Barros, Natália Lopes Ferreira, Vania Graner Silva Pinto, Desanka Dragosavac, Antonio Eiras Falcao, Guilherme Menezes Mescolotte, Mariana Rabelo de Brito, Otávio Alves de Souza and West Paulista University, Presidente Prudente, Brazil
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Antonio Eiras Falcao: Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
Mariana Rabelo de Brito: Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil

Open Access Journal of Neurology & Neurosurgery, 2017, vol. 5, issue 3, 35-38

Abstract: Severity scores have wide spread use in intensive care as surrogate markers of disease severity, benchmarking and resource allocation. They are derived from certain cohorts and should go a validation process before their general use in other populations. Nevertheless, they may loss accuracy and prognosis predictability overtime and in different settings. Therefore, constant assess of score’s performance is crucial. In this study, we evaluated APACHE II, SAPS 3 and SOFA discrimination and calibration for mortality in a cohort of neurosurgical and neurological patients. Although all have showed good discrimination, APACHE II had a better calibration compared to the others. Hence, our data suggests that APACHE II is a good prognostic model for neurocritical patients.

Keywords: Open Access Journal of Neurology; Journal of Neurology & Neurosurgery; Open Access Journal; juniper publishers; neurology open access journals; journal of neurology; neurology indexed journals; neurology scholarly journals; journal of neurology; neurology journals impact factor; juniper publishers reivew (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.19080/OAJNN.2017.05.555662

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