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Objective: To investigate in a systematic, reproducible way the potential of adding increasing levels of diagnostic information to prognostic models for estimating hospital mortality. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: Thirty UK intensive care units (ICUs) participating in the ICNARC Case Mix Programme. Patients: Eight thousand fifty-seven admissions to UK ICUs. Measurements and results: Logistic regression analysis incorporating APACHE II score, admission type and increasing levels of diagnostic information was used to develop models to estimate hospital mortality for intensive care patients. The 53 UK APACHE II diagnostic categories were substituted with data from a hierarchical, five-tiered (type of condition required surgery or not, body system, anatomical site, physiological/pathological process, condition) coding method, the ICNARC Coding Method. The inter-rater reliability using the ICNARC Coding Method to code reasons for admission was good (k = 0.70). All new models had good discrimination (AUC = 0.79–0.81) and similar or better calibration compared with the UK APACHE II model (Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit H = 18.03 to H = 26.77 for new models versus H = 63.51 for UK APACHE II model). Conclusion: The UK APACHE II model can be simplified by extending the admission type and substituting the 53 UK APACHE II diagnostic categories with nine body systems, without losing discriminative power or calibration.
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Received: 24 September 1999 Final revision received: 24 January 2000 Accepted: 1 February 2000
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de Keizer, N., Bonsel, G., Goldfad, C. et al. The added value that increasing levels of diagnostic information provide in prognostic models to estimate hospital mortality for adult intensive care patients. Intensive Care Med 26, 577–584 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001340051207
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001340051207