Comparison of Mortality Prediction Scores in Intermediate-Care Patients with Liver Cirrhosis at a German University Transplant Centre : A Prospective Study

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Mortality prediction models help to extract and relate patient data upon admission to intensive or intermediate care units (ImCUs). Considering technical and economic healthcare developments, re-evaluations of score performances are required to warrant their validity. This study validates and compares established scoring systems in cirrhotic ImCU patients.

METHODS: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II, Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) 2 and 3, Sepsis Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), Mortality Probability Model at ICU admission (MPMo) II and III, Model for End stage Liver Disease (MELD), CLIF-Consortium Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (CLIF-C ACLF), CLIF-Consortium Acute Decompensation (CLIF-C AD), and Intermediate Care Unit Severity Score (ImCUSS) were calculated in patients with cirrhosis (n = 98) at ImCU admission. Discrimination performances were evaluated by area under the receiver operating characteristic curves (AUROCs), calibration performances with calibration belt plots, and their corresponding p values.

RESULTS: Overall, SAPS 3 and CLIF-C ACLF have shown the best 90-day mortality prediction outcomes with AUROCs of 0.825 and 0.783 along with calibration belt p values of 0.128 and 0.061, respectively. In a subgroup analysis of patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), expanded SAPS 2, SOFA, and SAPS 3 reached the best AUROCs, i.e., 0.760, 0.750, and 0.714, but none of the tested scores reached an acceptable calibration.

CONCLUSION: Ninety-day mortality risk prediction of the SAPS 3 and CLIF-C ACLF was accurate in our cohort of patients with liver cirrhosis admitted to ImCUs. A particular challenge remains that is the mortality prediction in patients with ACLF requiring ImCU-level care; here, further developments are needed to generate scores with acceptable predictive performances.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:41

Enthalten in:

Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 41(2023), 1 vom: 08., Seite 96-106

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Jahn, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Raschidi, Lea [VerfasserIn]
Özçürümez, Mustafa K [VerfasserIn]
Arzideh, Farhad [VerfasserIn]
Korth, Johannes [VerfasserIn]
Kribben, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Canbay, Ali [VerfasserIn]
Katsounas, Antonios [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Chronic Liver Failure Consortium
Cirrhosis
Intermediate care units
Journal Article
Mortality prediction
Simplified Acute Physiology Score

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Date Completed 25.01.2023

Date Revised 02.02.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1159/000522595

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM337042411