GIDS Score for Mortality Prediction in ICU Patients with Pre-existing Digestive Disease

Yiming Shi's prospective observational study evaluates the Gastrointestinal Dysfunction Score (GIDS) in adult ICU patients. The dataset includes 486 patients, with 359 having pre-existing digestive system disease, and records daily GIDS, SOFA, and AGI scores for the first ICU week. The study found that combining GIDS with SOFA improved discrimination for 28-day mortality, achieving an AUC of 0.764.

Use Cases

• Validate the Gastrointestinal Dysfunction Score (GIDS) for mortality prediction based on the described prospective study design.
• Compare the performance of GIDS against the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score based on the reported AUC metrics.
• Analyze the impact of pre-existing digestive disease on ICU outcomes based on the cohort stratification described.
• Investigate the incremental value of adding gastrointestinal-specific metrics to general organ failure scores based on the combined GIDS+SOFA model results.

Strengths

• Includes 486 patient records from a prospective observational study.
• Compares three clinical scoring systems (GIDS, SOFA, AGI) for 28-day mortality prediction.
• Provides specific performance metrics, such as an AUC of 0.764 for the combined GIDS+SOFA model.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single-center study, which may limit generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Yiming Shi via figshare.

Collection Method

Single-center, prospective observational study.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 04:51:50; freshness should be verified.