Table 5

Ninety-day readmission or death, AUROC curves, with data imputation

Prognostic scoreDerivationInternal validationExternal validation
PEARL0.73 (0.70 to 0.77)0.68 (0.64 to 0.72)0.70 (0.66 to 0.73)
ADO0.67 (0.63 to 0.71)*0.64 (0.60 to 0.67)†0.58 (0.54 to 0.62)*
BODEX0.65 (0.61 to 0.69)*0.64 (0.60 to 0.68)‡0.62 (0.58 to 0.66)*
CODEX0.69 (0.65 to 0.73)†0.66 (0.63 to 0.70) NS0.62 (0.58 to 0.66)*
DOSE0.63 (0.59 to 0.67)*0.59 (0.55 to 0.64)*0.61 (0.57 to 0.65)*
LACE0.65 (0.61 to 0.69)*0.61 (0.57 to 0.65)†0.65 (0.61 to 0.68)‡
  • AUROC curves (and 95% CIs) of each score compared with PEARL by method of DeLong et al: *<0.001, †<0.01, ‡<0.05.

  • Missing data >20% for BODEX and DOSE. On complete case analysis, BODEX=0.63 (0.59–0.67), DOSE=0.60 (0.53–0.66).

  • NS, not significant.