Ruiying Liu , Xuanwen Ru , Zihao Yang , Tiewei Li , Junmei Yang , Yang Liu , Xiaoyu Cui , Jing Wu , Ruijie Yu , Zhan Ma , Baoyu Yuan , Feng Cheng , Suhong Huang , Caizhi Huang , Cong Zhang , Hongbing Chen , Xun Zhou , Xiaowei Zhang , JingRan Wang , Xin Lv , Qing Ye
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Assessing the prognostic accuracy of the PSS, pSOFA, and SIRS for in-hospital mortality in children with suspected infection in non-ICU settings: a multicenter retrospective study
Objectives
To systematically compare the predictive accuracy of the Phoenix Sepsis Score (PSS), the Pediatric Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (pSOFA), and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in assessing in-hospital mortality risk among pediatric sepsis patients in non-intensive care unit (non-ICU) wards, thereby providing evidence-based support for clinical risk stratification.
Design
This study employed a multicenter retrospective cohort design, enrolling non-ICU pediatric patients with suspected infections (excluding preterm infants and neonates hospitalized immediately after birth), to construct an overall cohort and a neonatology subgroup cohort. Clinical parameters were collected through a data acquisition system, with parallel calculations of PSS, pSOFA, and SIRS scores. The primary endpoint was in-hospital mortality. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were constructed via R language version 4.3.1, and the discriminatory performance of each scoring system was evaluated via the area under the ROC curve (AUROC).
Results
From January 2023 to September 2024, 965 non-ICU pediatric patients with infections were enrolled from 13 medical centers (overall cohort mortality: 1.1%, 11/965; neonatology cohort: 193 cases, mortality: 4.1%, 8/193). In the overall cohort, all 11 patients experienced deterioration on the ward and were subsequently transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) in accordance with each hospital's protocol; eight of them died from sepsis, and three from septic shock. After multivariate adjustment, the AUROC value of the PSS score in the overall cohort was 0.756 (99% CI: 0.731-0.780), representing a 3.6% improvement over the SIRS criteria (0.730, 99% CI: 0.543-0.873) but lower than the pSOFA score (0.845, 99% CI: 0.568-0.966). In the neonatology cohort, the AUROC value of the PSS score was 0.764 (99% CI: 0.478-0.927), comparable to that of the SIRS criteria (0.757, 99% CI: 0.475-0.905) but still lower than that of the pSOFA score (0.819, 99% CI: 0.533-0.983). No statistically significant differences were observed among the three scoring systems (P > 0.01).
Conclusions
These findings suggest that the PSS score does not demonstrate superior predictive value compared with traditional assessment tools in non-ICU clinical scenarios.
期刊介绍:
International Journal of Infectious Diseases (IJID)
Publisher: International Society for Infectious Diseases
Publication Frequency: Monthly
Type: Peer-reviewed, Open Access
Scope:
Publishes original clinical and laboratory-based research.
Reports clinical trials, reviews, and some case reports.
Focuses on epidemiology, clinical diagnosis, treatment, and control of infectious diseases.
Emphasizes diseases common in under-resourced countries.