International Scholarly Research Notices / 2013 / Article / Tab 4 / Review Article
The Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis Score as a Predictor of 1-Month Mortality among Adult Patients with Sepsis: Weighing the Evidence Table 4 Area under the ROC curve for MEDS score and respective biomarkers for prediction of mortality.
Area under the ROC curve (95% CI) Hermans et al., 2012 [23 ] Lee et al., 2008a [24 ] Vorwerk et al., 2009 [26 ] Zhao et al., 2013 [25 ] 28-day mortality 5-day mortality 6- to 30-day mortality 28-day mortality 28-day mortality MEDS score 0.81 (0.73–0.88) 0.89 0.82 0.82 (0.78–0.87)b 0.78 (0.73–0.83) C-reactive protein 0.68 (0.58–0.78) 0.68 0.64 — 0.66 (0.61–0.72) Procalcitonin — 0.76 0.73 — 0.68 (0.63–0.74) Lactate 0.75 (0.6–0.9) — — 0.62 (0.54–0.7) — Interleukin-6 — — — — 0.69 (0.64–0.74) MEDS + procalcitonin — — — — 0.81 (0.77–0.86)
95% CI not available.
b Abbreviated MEDS score. CI: confidence interval; MEDS: Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis, ROC: receiver operating characteristic.