Derivation and Validation of a Risk Score to Predict Mortality of Early Neonates at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: The END in NICU Score.

Yitayeh Belsti Zelalem Mehari NigussieGebeyaw Wudie Tsegaye

Published in: International journal of general medicine (2021)

The derived score has an excellent discriminative ability and good prediction performance. This is an important tool for predicting early neonatal mortality in neonatal intensive care units at admission.

Keyphrases

preterm infants
intensive care unit
cardiovascular events
emergency department
risk factors
low birth weight
type diabetes
coronary artery disease
mechanical ventilation
acute respiratory distress syndrome