Use of a Mortality Prediction Model in Children on Mechanical Ventilation: A 5-Year Experience in a Tertiary University Hospital.
Waleed H AlbualiAmal A AlgamdiElham A HasanMohammad Hussain Hassan Al-QahtaniAbdullah A YousefMohammad A Al GhamdiDalal K BubshaitMohammed Saeed Saad AlshahraniFaisal O AlQurashiTalal A Bou ShahmahBassam H AwaryPublished in: Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare (2020)
The SEPM model had a high specificity for mortality prediction. In this model, only six clinical predictors were used, which might be easily obtained in the early period of PICU admission. The ability of the SEPM model and the PRISM III score in predicting mortality in severely ill children was comparable. However, the accuracy of the newly established model in other settings should be validated, and a prospective longitudinal study that considers the effect of the treatment on the model's predictive ability must be conducted.