International comparison of the performance of the paediatric index of mortality (PIM) 2 score in two national data sets

Abstract

The PIM2 score was valid in the FS population. The recalibration based on GB data could be applied to FS PICUs. Such recalibration may facilitate comparisons between countries.

Being Underweight Is an Independent Risk Factor for Poor Outcomes Among Acutely Critically Ill Children

“…The mortality rate of our study cohort was 4.3%, which is comparable (3.4%–7.4%) with that of other recent PICU/NICU studies . CNS complications were the most common sequelae, which is also consistent with a previous study .…”

“…Many studies have reported that the PIM2 is a good tool for predicting the mortality and poor outcomes of critically ill children . In this study, we confirmed the value of the PIM2 score in evaluating the outcomes of patients admitted to a PICU/NICU.…”

“…In this study, we found that being underweight and having a higher PIM2 score were independent risk factors for poor clinical outcomes among acutely critically ill children admitted to a PICU/NICU. The PIM2 score has been widely used without taking the nutrition status into consideration, and it has been proven to be a reliable predictive score for children receiving intensive care . An increasing number of studies have evaluated the impact of nutrition status on disease prognosis, in which the W/A z score was used to represent nutrition status because of its rapidity and accessibility during admission to a PICU/NICU.…”

Illness severity and organ dysfunction scoring in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

“…PELOD-2 was developed and validated with a dataset that originated from only two countries (France and Belgium) which are different from other parts of the world population. [ 27 28 ] Thus, the extrapolation to other countries has to be verified. Interobserver variability was not studied and should be evaluated in future studies on new populations.…”

Year in review in Intensive Care Medicine 2012: III. Noninvasive ventilation, monitoring and patient–ventilator interactions, acute respiratory distress syndrome, sedation, paediatrics and miscellanea

“…PIM2 was found to have excellent discriminatory power, good calibration and therefore to be a potentially useful tool in the assessment of quality of care in Japanese PICUs. Likewise, Leteurtre et al [67] sought to compare the performance of PIM2 in 14 French and 1 Belgian PICUs. The authors undertook a recalibration of the score in both the French-Belgian (FB) and Great Britain and Ireland (GBI) data sets.…”