Evaluation of medication regimen complexity as a predictor for mortality

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 13; no. 1; p. 10784
• Main Authors: Sikora, Andrea, Devlin, John W., Yu, Mengyun, Zhang, Tianyi, Chen, Xianyan, Smith, Susan E., Murray, Brian, Buckley, Mitchell S., Rowe, Sandra, Murphy, David J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 04.07.2023; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 692/700; 692/700/565; Adult; APACHE; Drugs; Hospital Mortality; Hospitals; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Intensive care; Intensive Care Units; Lifesaving; Mortality; multidisciplinary; Observational studies; Organ Dysfunction Scores; Prediction models; Prognosis; Regression analysis; Retrospective Studies; ROC Curve; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Severity of Illness Index; Vancomycin

While medication regimen complexity, as measured by a novel medication regimen complexity-intensive care unit (MRC-ICU) score, correlates with baseline severity of illness and mortality, whether the MRC-ICU improves hospital mortality prediction is not known. After characterizing the association bet...