Table 2 Actual versus expected rates of hospital admission for each admission criteria and AUC’s for ability of each criteria to predict hospital admission
From: Validating hospital admission criteria for decision support in pneumonia
All patients (N = 2,308) | CAP only (N = 2,002) | HCAP only (N = 306) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hospital admission | AUC (CI’s) | Hospital admission | AUC (CI’s) | Hospital admission | AUC (CI’s) | |
Actual | 58% (N = 1336) | NA | 55% (N = 1099) | NA | 77% (N = 237) | NA |
Our admission criteria 1 (no altitude adjustment) | 52% (N = 1192) p < 0.001 | 0.77 (0.76-0.79) | 49% | 0.78 (0.76-0.80) | 69% | 0.68 (0.62-0.75) |
Our admission criteria 2 (altitude adjusted) | 41% (N = 947) p < 0.001 | 0.74 0.73-0.76 | 38% | 0.74 (0.72-0.76) | 63% | 0.67 (0.61-0.74) |
CURB-65 ≥ 2 | 49% (N = 1130) p < 0.001 | 0.73 0.71-0.74 | 46% | 0.73 (0.71-0.75) | 65% | 0.65 (0.58-0.71) |
A-DROP ≥ 2 | 54% (N = 1244) p < 0.001 | 0.78 0.76-0.80 | 51% | 0.79 (0.77-0.80) | 71% | 0.68 (0.61-0.74) |