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Table 4 Performance of the SOFA score and its components in predicting hospital mortality; N = 36632patients

From: Mortality prediction by SOFA score in ICU-patients after cardiac surgery; comparison with traditional prognostic–models

SOFA components

AUC (CI 95%)*

Brier score (CI 95%)

Ĉ-statistic (CI)*

Ĉ-statistic p-value

SOFA – Total

0.809 (0.808–0.810)

0.020 (0.019–0.20)

43.7 (31.5–61.1)

<  0.001

SOFA – Respiratory

0.654 (0.651–0.656)

0.022 (0.022–0.022)

10.7 (5.1–22.0)

0.170

SOFA – Coagulation

0.707 (0.702–0.709)

0.021 (0.021–0.021)

8.8 (4.0–21.1)

0.283

SOFA – Hepatogenic

0.706 (0.704–0.707)

0.021 (0.021–0.021)

9.5 (4.8–19.6)

0.267

SOFA – Circulation

0.718 (0.715–0.719)

0.021 (0.021–0.021)

16.3 (7.16–33.7)

0.021

SOFA – Renal

0.741 (0.736–0.745)

0.021 (0.021–0.021)

31.0 (19.0–44.9)

<  0.001

SOFA – Neurology

0.691 (0.689–0.692)

0.021 (0.021–0.021)

10.1 (4.3–19.3)

0.245

  1. *AUC: area under the receiver operating characteristic curve; Ĉ-statistic: Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit Ĉ-statistic; CI: 95% confidence interval
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