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ArticleJournal of intensive care2018

Predicting in-hospital mortality in pneumonia-associated septic shock patients using a classification and regression tree: a nested cohort study.

Jaime L Speiser, Constantine J Karvellas, Geoffery Shumilak, Wendy I Sligl, Yazdan Mirzanejad, Dave Gurka, Aseem Kumar, Anand Kumar, Institutional Review Boards (IRB) of the Cooperative Antimicrobial Therapy of Septic Shock (CATSS) Database Research Group

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Article in Journal of intensive care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Jaime L Speiser1Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC USA.
Constantine J Karvellas2Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Alberta, 1-40 Zeidler-Ledcor Building, Edmonton, Alberta T6G-2X8 Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1555-1089
Geoffery Shumilak4Division of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Wendy I Sligl4Division of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Yazdan MirzanejadSurrey Hospital, Surrey, BC Canada.
Dave Gurka8Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL USA.
Aseem Kumar9Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON Canada.
Anand Kumar5Section of Critical Care Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Institutional Review Boards (IRB) of the Cooperative Antimicrobial Therapy of Septic Shock (CATSS) Database Research Group
University of Alberta · CAUniversity of Manitoba · CARush University Medical Center · USSurrey Memorial Hospital · CAWake Forest University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPneumonia complicated by septic shock is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Classification and regression tree methodology is an intuitive method for predicting clinical outcomes using binary splits. We aimed to improve the prediction of in-hospital mortality in patients with pneumonia and septic shock using decision tree analysis.

methodsClassification and regression tree models were applied to all patients with pneumonia-associated septic shock in the international, multicenter Cooperative Antimicrobial Therapy of Septic Shock database between 1996 and 2015. The association between clinical factors (time to appropriate antimicrobial therapy, severity of illness) and in-hospital mortality was evaluated. Accuracy in predicting clinical outcomes, sensitivity, specificity, and area under receiver operating curve of the final model was evaluated in training (

resultsThe study cohort contained 4222 patients, and in-hospital mortality was 51%. The mean time from onset of shock to administration of appropriate antimicrobials was significantly higher for patients who died (17.2 h) compared to those who survived (5.0 h). In the training dataset (

conclusionsOverall mortality (51%) in patients with pneumonia complicated by septic shock is high. Increased time to administration of antimicrobial therapy, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II Score, serum lactate, and age were associated with increased in-hospital mortality. Classification and regression tree methodology offers a simple prognostic model with good performance in predicting in-hospital mortality.

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Antimicrobial therapyClassification and regression treePneumoniaSeptic shock

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PMID30349726
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