From: Risk scoring systems for adults admitted to the emergency department: a systematic review
Scoring System | Population | Exclusion criteria | Endpoint(s) | Number of endpoints met | Sex | Statistic method | Potential maximum population (before exclusion) | Sample-size (% of potential maximum population) | Number of parameters analyzed |
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REMS[21] | Patients admitted to a non-surgical emergency department | Cardiac arrest with unsuccessful resuscitation, more than one vital sign missing | In-hospital mortality | 285 (2.4%) | 51.6% female | Multivariate regression analysis | 12,006 | 11,751 (97.9%) | 8 |
RAPS[17] | Patients transported to a university hospital by helicopter | Age younger than 11 years, missing values | 24 hours mortality | 36 (12.7%) | NS | Multivariate regression analysis | 283 | 283 (100%) | 4 |
GS[18] | Patients transported to an emergency department by ambulance | Trauma, psychiatric disease, dead on arrival, discharged from the ED, outcome not available at follow-up, not admitted due to specified disease | In-hospital mortality | 711 (12.7%) | 42.3% female | Regression analysis | 17,950 | 5,583 (31.1%) | 31 |
HOTEL[15] | Patients admitted to a medical admission unit | Age younger than 14, death < 15 minutes from arrival, missing values | Death within 15 minutes to 24 hours after arrival | 592 (0.6%) | NS | Logistic regression | 11,124 | 10,2903 (92.5%) | 11 |
SCS[14] | Patients admitted to a medical admission unit | Age younger than 14 | 30 days mortality | 316 (4.7%) | 47.5% female | Logistic regression | 11,124 | 9,9644 (89.6%) | 29 |
WPS[20] | Patients admitted to an emergency care unit | None | In-hospital mortality | 270 (8.5%) | 52% female | Logistic regression | 4,384 | 3,184 (72.6%) | 6 |
RLD[13] | Patients discharged from medical department | Age below 16 at admission | In-hospital mortality | NS5 | NS | Logistic regression | 17,417 | 16,73776 (96.1%) | 7 |
TTS[16] | Patients admitted to a medical admission unit | Age below 16, admission directly to the ICU | In-hospital mortality | 835 (8.4%) | 52.3% female | Comparison using AUROC | 10,051 | 9,987 (99.4%) | 87 |
EWS[19] | Patients admitted to a medical admission unit | None | In-hospital mortality, length of stay, admission to ICU or CCU | 29 combined (12.8%), 8 dead (3.5%) | 48.5% female | Logistic regression | 225 | 225 (100%) | 6 |
ALT[12] | Patients in a medical emergency department | No blood test drawn | Mortality while admitted to a medical department | 573 (5.6%) | 48.6% female | Logistic regression | 23,397 | 10,308 (44.1%) | 27 |