Conclusion: The utility of qSOFA to recognize severity of illness and predict mortality in our cohort of ICU patients is similar to the previous description in suspected infection, but less accurate than SAPS 3.
The SAPS III appears very promising, and is more recent and sophisticated than SAPS II.
Finally, one study reported that admission SOFA had a higher AUC (0.82) than SAPS II (0.77) [ 20].
It is simple and practical, has more sensitivity than SAPS II and therefore should be recommended in clinical practice.
Among the 106 ICUs, 22 (21%) failed to provide the SAPS II score for more than 20% of admissions (some collected SAPS I rather than SAPS II).
APACHE II and III have poorer calibration and discrimination than SAPS II, MPM II and the ICNARC model in traumatic brain injury; however, no model had perfect calibration.
It performed better than SAPS II, APACHE II and III, and MPM II [ 24], but has not been compared to the latest versions of these scores.
APACHE II and III have poorer calibration and discrimination than SAPS II, MPM II and the ICNARC model in predicting mortality in these patients.
