Performance of the Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) and Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2) in a tertiary pediatric intensive care unit in the Brazilian Amazon

Authors

  • Emmerson Carlos Franco de Farias Hospital Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará, Departamento Pediatria, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica, Belém, Pará, Brasil http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8627-5694
  • Patrícia Barbosa de Carvalho Hospital Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará, Departamento Pediatria, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica, Belém, Pará, Brasil http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6820-0613
  • Luciana Maria Passos Pinto do Nascimento Hospital Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará, Departamento Pediatria, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica, Belém, Pará, Brasil http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7880-4039
  • Mary Lucy Ferraz Maia Fiuza de Mello Hospital Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará, Departamento Pediatria, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica, Belém, Pará, Brasil http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4223-692X
  • Angélica de Abreu Santana Hospital Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará, Departamento Pediatria, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica, Belém, Pará, Brasil http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4452-7133
  • Susan Sales Diniz Hospital Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará, Departamento Pediatria, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica, Belém, Pará, Brasil http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5291-6403
  • Anna Paula Santos Pinheiro Hospital Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará, Departamento Pediatria, Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica, Belém, Pará, Brasil http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2615-2809
  • Igor Brasil Costa Instituto Evandro Chagas, Seção de Virologia, Laboratório Epstein-Barr Vírus, Belém, Pará, Brasil http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2600-4109

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5123/S2176-6223201900080

Keywords:

Risk Assessment, Pediatric Intensive Care Units, Prognosis, Mortality, Mortality Score

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

To evaluate the performance of the Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) and Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2) scores in the Tertiary Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of the Fundação Santa Casa de Misericórdia do Pará (FSCMPA).

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

A retrospective cohort study was conducted with patients hospitalized in PICU for more than 8 h, from January 2017 to April 2018. Exclusion criteria were: stay longer than 90 days; cardiorespiratory arrest without stability in 12 h; palliative care; and brain death. To calculate score and outcome systems, Standardized Mortality Rate (SMR), calibration, and discrimination variables were used and compared by goodness-of-fit and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves, respectively.

RESULTS:

Among the 458 hospitalizations, 429 (93.7%) were included. Overall mortality was 17.5%, with 64.0% under 2 years of age; and 58.7% of those who evolved to death were submitted to mechanical ventilation for more than seven days. The estimated mean probability of death from PRISM was 9.85%, while the mean PIM2 was 14.2%. The SMR was 1.35 (1.26-1.72) for PRISM and 1.23 (1.13-1.58) for PIM2. The area under the ROC curve was 0.89 (95% CI 0.81-0.91) for PRISM and 0.87 (95% CI 0.83-0.91) for PIM2.

CONCLUSION:

In the FSCMPA PICU, PRISM and PIM2 had good calibration and good discriminatory power. The SMR was greater than one.

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Published

2019-06-20

How to Cite

Farias, E. C. F. de, Carvalho, P. B. de, Nascimento, L. M. P. P. do, Mello, M. L. F. M. F. de, Santana, A. de A., Diniz, S. S., Pinheiro, A. P. S., & Costa, I. B. (2019). Performance of the Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) and Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2) in a tertiary pediatric intensive care unit in the Brazilian Amazon. an-mazonian ournal of ealth, 10, 9. https://doi.org/10.5123/S2176-6223201900080

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