ArticleJournal of critical care2018
Hospital mortality prediction for intermediate care patients: Assessing the generalizability of the Intermediate Care Unit Severity Score (IMCUSS).
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- Living with multimorbidity: A qualitative exploration of shared experiences of patients, family caregivers, and healthcare professionals in managing symptoms in the United States.Journal of advanced nursing · 2024Article
- Study protocol for Care cOORDInatioN And sympTom managEment (COORDINATE) programme: a feasibility study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Creation and Expansion of a Mixed Patient Intermediate Care Unit to Improve ICU Capacity.Critical care explorations · 2023Article
- Performance of Critical Care Outcome Prediction Models in an Intermediate Care Unit.Journal of intensive care medicine · 2020Article
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- Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation score and mortality of patients admitted to intermediate care units of a hospital in a low- and middle-income country: A cross-sectional study from Pakistan.International journal of critical illness and injury scienceArticle
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Abstract
purposeThe Intermediate Care Unit Severity Score (IMCUSS) is an easy to calculate predictor of in-hospital death, and the only such tool developed for patients in the intermediate care setting. We sought to examine its external validity. MATERIALS AND
methodsUsing data from patients admitted to the intermediate care unit (IMCU) of an urban academic medical center from July to December of 2012, model discrimination and calibration for predicting in-hospital death were assessed using the area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) and the Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit chi-squared (HL GOF X
resultsThe cohort included data from 628 unique admissions to the IMCU. Overall hospital mortality was 8.3%. The median IMCUSS was 10 (Interquartile Range: 0-16), with 229 (36%) patients having a score of zero. The AUROC for the IMCUSS was 0.72 (95% CI: 0.64-0.78), the HL GOF X
conclusionsThe IMCUSS exhibited acceptable discrimination, poor calibration, and underestimated mortality. Other centers should assess the performance of the IMCUSS before adopting its use.
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