Abstract:Objective To explore the clinical value of five scoring systems for predicting one-month prognosis of patients with severe sepsis in the ICU. Methods A total of 268 patients diagnosed with severe sepsis in the ICU of our hospital from June 2012 to June 2014 were selected as study objects. Five different scoring systems were used to evaluate the worst physiological data within 24 h. The scoring systems included Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation Ⅱ(APACHEⅡ), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment(SOFA), Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPSII), Simplified Acute Physiology Score Ⅲ(SAPSⅢ), and Mortality in Emergency Department Sepsis (MEDS).According to the patient's survival status after one month, the 268 patients were divided into survival group and death group. The physiological indexes and the scoring systems influencing the prediction of prognosis were analyzed, and the ability of the five systems to predict the prognosis of the patients was compared. Results Of the 268 cases, 93 patients died within one month, and the remaining 175 patients survived. The age of the dead patients was significantly older than that of the survival group (P < 0.05) . The APACHEⅡ, SOFA, SAPSⅡ, SAPSⅢand MEDS scores were higher in the death group (P < 0.05), but there was no significant difference in gender between the two groups (P > 0.05). At the same time, there were more patients with essential hypertension, malignant tumors, renal insufficiency, pulmonary infection and bacterial infection in the death group than in the survival group (P <0.05). APACHEⅡscore, SAPSⅡscore, SOFA score, MEDS score, SAPSⅢscore, malignant tumor and pulmonary infection were the seven factors influencing the prognosis of the patients with severe sepsis. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of MEDS scoring system was significantly larger than that of the other four scoring systems (P < 0.05), but there were no significant differences among the area under the ROC curve of the other four scoring systems (P > 0.05). When the MEDS score was 92.3, the sensitivity was 91.3%, the specificity was89.7%, and the mortality rate within one month was 86.5% in the patients with severe sepsis. Conclusions MEDS is superior to APACHEⅡ, SOFA, SAPSⅡand SAPSⅢin predicting the prognosis of patients with severe sepsis in ICU, and its boundary value is 92.3. The other four scoring systems are basically consistent in the predictive ability of ICU patients with severe sepsis.