Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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Comparative Study
Predicting mortality in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia: The APACHE II score versus the new IBMP-10 score.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the leading cause of mortality associated with nosocomial infection. The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score at the time of diagnosis of VAP is considered the best scoring system to predict mortality in patients with VAP. The objective of this study was to develop a simple score to predict mortality in patients with VAP and to compare its results with those for the APACHE II scoring system. ⋯ This preliminary work indicates that a 5-point score, the IBMP-10, is comparable to the APACHE II score in its ability to predict mortality in patients with VAP. If future studies validate the IBMP-10 score, physicians may be have a simple tool to evaluate the disease severity and to predict outcomes in patients with VAP.