Table 1.
Characteristics of patients at admission and evolution in ICU.
Fig 1.
Receiver operating characteristic curves showing the performances of SAPS II, modified SAPS II and age to predict ICU mortality.
Areas under curves (95% CI) are 0.828 (0.813–0.843), 0.814 (0.798–0.829), and 0.627 (0.608–0.646).
Table 2.
Diagnostic performance of SAPS II in predicting ICU mortality.
Fig 2.
Decision curves showing the clinical usefulness of SAPS II, modified SAPS II and age to predict ICU mortality.
Solid black line represents the net benefit of applying palliative care for no patients, assuming that all patients would be alive. Solid gray line represents the net benefit of applying palliative care for all patients, assuming that all would die. Long dashed line, medium dash line and short dash line represent the net benefit of applying palliative care to patients according to SAPS II, modified SAPS II and age, respectively.
Table 3.
Predicted ICU mortality and net benefit of SAPS II.
Fig 3.
Decision curves according to reason for ICU admission to predict ICU mortality.
Decision curves showing the clinical usefulness of SAPS II to predict ICU mortality according to major reason for ICU admission: (a) cardiogenic shock, (b) hypovolemic shock, (c) septic shock, (d) coma and (e) respiratory distress syndrome. Solid black line represents the net benefit of applying palliative care for no patients, assuming that all patients would be alive. Solid gray line represents the net benefit of applying palliative care for all patients, assuming that all would die. Dashed line represents the net benefit of applying palliative care to patients according to SAPS II.