Annals of Intensive Care

Table 23 Discrimination of three pediatric early warning systems for predicting medical call or admission to PICU

From: Proceedings of Réanimation 2017, the French Intensive Care Society International Congress

Scores	Medical call		Admission to PICU
Scores	AUC	OR [95% CI]	AUC	OR [95% CI]
Complete PAWS	0.93	1.44 [1.38–1.51]	0.90	2.37 [1.97–2.85]
Imputed PAWS	0.93	1.34 [1.28–1.39]	0.91	2.44 [2.08–2.87]
Complete PEWS	0.92	1.67 [1.57–1.78]	0.91	2.82 [2.27–3.49]
Imputed PEWS	0.93	1.55 [1.47–1.63]	0.89	2.73 [2.25–3.30]
Complete BedPEWS	0.92	1.29 [1.25–1.33]	0.92	1.84 [1.60–2.11]
Imputed BedPEWS	0.93	1.29 [1.25–1.33]	0.92	1.85 [1.66–2.06]

AUC area under the curve, OR odds ratio to increase score one point, CI confidence intervals

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