A Measure of Mortality Risk for Elderly Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction.
Publication/Presentation Date
4-1-1993
Abstract
The objective of this study was to derive and validate a simple scoring system that predicts risk of short-term mortality in elderly patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and to compare this derived score with the MedisGroups admission severity score. A myocardial infarction severity score (MISS) was derived from a database of clinical information abstracted using MedisGroups and follow-up information on 30-day mortality status. The MISS was validated and compared with the MedisGroups Admission Severity Groups (ASGs) in a separate database. The derivation set included 2,037 Medicare patients 65 years old or older with confirmed AMI who were randomly selected from patients discharged from hospitals in seven states during 1985. The validation set consisted of 6,323 patients from the 1988 MedisGroups comparative database who were at least 65 years of age and had confirmed AMI. Multivariate logistic regression analysis found a set of nine abnormal patient characteristics that independently predict 30-day mortality. There was good agreement between mortality rates predicted by the logistic model and observed mortality rates in the validation population. This regression model was then simplified to an additive score where eight of the characteristics were weighted as one point and one characteristic was weighted as two points. The MISS is the sum of the points for each patient. In the validation dataset, the 1,373 patients with the lowest MISS scores had a mortality rate of 4.6% and the 400 patients with the highest MISS scores had a mortality rate of 64%.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Volume
13
Issue
2
First Page
152
Last Page
160
ISSN
0272-989X
Published In/Presented At
Van Ruiswyk, J., Hartz, A., Kuhn, E., Krakauer, H., Young, M., & Rimm, A. (1993). A measure of mortality risk for elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction. Medical Decision Making: An International Journal Of The Society For Medical Decision Making, 13(2), 152-160.
Disciplines
Medical Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
8483400
LVHN link
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Department(s)
Department of Medicine, Department of Medicine Faculty
Document Type
Article