Critical care outcome prediction equation model, version 7

Abstract

Objective Mortality prediction models are used for benchmarking, audit, research, and epidemiology. This report describes the development and validation methodology, for version 7 of the critical care outcome prediction equation for monitoring adult intensive care unit (ICU) mortality risk. Design This was a multiphase study incorporating data extraction, curation, aggregation, modelling, and validation applied to jurisdictional administrative datasets to model 90-day survival. Setting The study was conducted across 28 public and 19 private hospitals in state of Victoria, Australia, with an adult population of 5.28 million. Participants A total of 215,148 consecutive adult hospital separatio..