Luethi, Nora; Wermelinger, Sarah D; Haynes, Alan G.; Roumet, Marie; Maessen, Maud; Affolter, Barbara; Müller, Martin; Schefold, Joerg; Eychmueller, Steffen; Cioccari, Luca (2022). Development of an electronic Poor Outcome Screening (ePOS) Score to identify critically ill patients with potential palliative care needs. Journal of critical care, 69, p. 154007. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jcrc.2022.154007
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PURPOSE
To develop and validate an electronic poor outcome screening (ePOS) score to identify critically ill patients with potentially unmet palliative care (PC) needs at 48 hours after ICU admission.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Retrospective single-centre cohort study of 1'772 critically ill adult patients admitted to a tertiary academic ICU in Switzerland between 2017 and 2018. We used data available from electronic health records (EHR) in the first 48 hours and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) logistic regression to develop a prediction model and generate a score to predict the risk of all cause 6-month mortality.
RESULTS
Within 6 months of the ICU admission, 598 patients (33.7%) had died. At a cut-off of 20 points, the ePOS score (range 0-46 points) had a sensitivity of 0.81 (95% CI 0.78 to 0.84) and a specificity of 0.51 (0.48 to 0.54) for predicting 6-month mortality and showed good discriminatory performance (AUROC 0.72, 0.67 to 0.77).
CONCLUSIONS
The ePOS score can easily be implemented in EHR and can be used for automated screening and stratification of ICU patients, pinpointing those in whom a comprehensive PC assessment should be performed. However, it should not replace clinical judgement.
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