Condition | Outcome measures |
AAA | ‘Immediate’ postoperative death40 30/7 death33 Inpatient death 34–36 38 42 43 Inpatient or 30/7 death 39 41 |
ACS or potential ACS | 12 h troponin rise63 14/7 death 50 14/7 AMI50 14/7 revascularisation50 14/7 death, AMI or recurrent ischaemia57 30/7 death46 57 64 72 74 75 77 78 205 208 209 211 212 30/7 death or AMI59 64 30/7 death, AMI or revascularisation44 45 47 53 58 60–62 66 70 77 80 Inpatient death48 51 67–69 71 73 79 81 204 210 Inpatient death preventable by monitoring or VF or VT207 Inpatient ACS49 Inpatient malignant arrhythmia69 Inpatient death or AMI65 Inpatient death, AMI or revascularisation56 66 Inpatient heart failure, shock, AF, VF, cardiac arrest, VT, MI, stroke, major bleed, death52 54 55 206 Cardiogenic shock76 |
Asthma/COPD | Poor treatment response84 Hospitalisation82 83 Requirement for mechanical ventilation85 Inpatient death85 86 |
GI bleed | 30/7 rebleed92 94 213 30/7 death 94 Inpatient death89 92 93 Inpatient rebleed89 Inpatient intervention or death91 Inpatient rebleed or death195 Inpatient rebleed, surgery or death87 88 Requiring transfusion, surgery or endoscopic intervention194 Requiring >2 unit transfusion, >20% fall in haematocrit, rebleed >24 h95 Requiring endoscopic intervention90 High risk stigmata at OGD195 |
Heart failure | 30/7 death99 Inpatient death96–98 Inpatient death or life-threatening condition97 |
Hypothermia | Inpatient death100 |
Meningitis | Inpatient death101 Glasgow Outcome Score 1–4102 |
Myxoedema | Inpatient death103 |
Pancreatitis | Inpatient death105 106 112 113 115 117 118 Atlanta severity criteria104 108 114 115 Admission to critical care107 117 Admission to critical care >1/7109 Admission to critical care >5/7116 Admission to critical care, necrosis or death111 Admission to critical care, local complications, surgery or death119 Severe complications110 Infection (bacteraemia/infected necrosis)117 |
Pneumonia | 2/7 death136 14/7 death215 28/7 death123 30/7 death120–122 126 128 129 133 134 137 140 141 143 144 146 217 218 220–223 Inpatient death124 135 139 142 145 148 214 Hospitalisation121 141 Complicated effusion or empyema130 Severe sepsis127 Critical care admission124 127 131 132 134 136 139–141 147 214 220 Critical care admission or death125 216 219 Critical care admission in 1-3/7138 |
Poisoning | Inpatient death149 Requirement for endotracheal intubation150 |
Pulmonary embolism | 30/7 death151 153 Inpatient death152 Haemodynamic instability152 |
Sepsis/infection | 5/7 death159 28/7 death155 156 158 166 30/7 death157 159 Inpatient death154 160–165 |
Surgical | 30/7 death168 173 Inpatient death167 170–172 174–178 Complication169 |
Syncope | 7/7 serious outcome179 182 183 Adverse cardiac outcome181 Final diagnosis cardiac syncope180 |
TIA | 2/7 CVA184 7/7 CVA184–188 30/7 CVA186 188 |
Unselected | Hospital admission190 191 Admission to critical care201 24 h death199 7/7 death or ICU admission225 14/7 death224 30/7 death198 225 Inpatient death189 192 193 196 197 200 202 203 |
AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm; ACS, acute coronary syndrome; AMI, acute myocardial infarction; COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; CVA, cerebrovascular accident; ICU, intensive care unit; MI, myocardial infarction; OGD, oesophagogastroduodenoscopy; TIA, transient ischaemic attack; VF, ventricular fibrillation; VT, ventricular tachycardia.