TY - JOUR PY - 2024// TI - Spanish vs USA cohort comparison of prehospital trauma scores to predict short-term mortality JO - Clinical medicine (London, England) A1 - Moreno-Blanco, Diego A1 - Alonso, Erik A1 - Sanz-García, Ancor A1 - Aramendi, Elisabete A1 - López-Izquierdo, Raúl A1 - García, Rubén Pérez A1 - Vegas, Carlos Del Pozo A1 - Martín-Rodríguez, Francisco SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - BACKGROUND: This study aimed to evaluate three prehospital early warning scores (EWSs): RTS, MGAP and MREMS, to predict short-term mortality in acute life-threatening trauma and injury/illness by comparing United States (US) and Spanish cohorts.

METHODS: A total of 8854 patients, 8598/256 survivors/nonsurvivors, comprised the unified cohort. Datasets were randomly divided into training and test sets. Training sets were used to analyze the discriminative power of the scores in terms of the area under the curve (AUC), and the score performance was assessed in the test set in terms of sensitivity (SE), specificity (SP), accuracy (ACC) and balanced accuracy (BAC).

RESULTS: The three scores showed great discriminative power with AUCs>0.90, and no significant differences between cohorts were found. In the test set, RTS/MREMS/MGAP showed SE/SP/ACC/BAC values of 86.0/89.9/89.6/87.1%, 91.0/86.9/87.5/88.5%, and 87.7/82.9/83.4/85.2%, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: All EWSs showed excellent ability to predict the risk of short-term mortality, independent of the country.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 1470-2118 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinme.2024.100208 ID - ref1 ER -