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Table 3 Area under the receiver operating characteristic curves of each predictive score in all patients and various subgroups

From: Simultaneous external validation of various cardiac arrest prognostic scores: a single-center retrospective study

Predictive scores

Number of patients

Area under the curve (95% confidence interval)

All patients, n = 189

  

 NULL-PLEASE score

189

0.874 (0.807–0.942)

 CAST score

173

0.860 (0.777–0.944)

 rCAST score

189

0.770 (0.659–0.880)

Patients with by-stander witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, n = 127

  

 NULL-PLEASE score

127

0.873 (0.793–0.952)

 CAST score

115

0.805 (0.606–0.914)

 rCAST score

127

0.728 (0.604–0.851)*

 CAHP score

110

0.829 (0.718–0.940)

 OHCA score

125

0.847 (0.773–0.921)

Patients in whom therapeutic hypothermia was induced, n = 100

  

 NULL-PLEASE score

100

0.893 (0.809–0.978)

 CAST score

96

0.913 (0.832–0.994)

 rCAST score

100

0.925 (0.860–0.989)

 CAHP score

73

0.821 (0.667–0.974)

 OHCA score

66

0.865 (0.755–0.976)

Patients in whom therapeutic hypothermia was not induced, n = 89

  

 NULL-PLEASE score

89

0.853 (0.740–0.965)

 CAST score

77

0.797 (0.638–0.955)

 rCAST score

89

0.599 (0.407–0.792) **

 CAHP score

66

0.868 (0.771–0.965)

 OHCA score

74

0.831 (0.736–0.926)

Patients in whom veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was not performed, n = 165

  

 NULL-PLEASE score

165

0.879 (0.807–0.951)

 CAST score

150

0.894 (0.801–0.986)

 rCAST score

165

0.753 (0.617–0.889)

 CAHP score

122

0.869 (0.776–0.962)

 OHCA score

138

0.857 (0.784–0.929)

Patients with age ≤ 65, n = 73

  

 NULL-PLEASE score

73

0.902 (0.809–0.995)

 CAST score

65

0.923 (0.845–1.000)

 rCAST score

73

0.948 (0.896–1.000)

 CAHP score

49

0.879 (0.763–0.995)

 OHCA score

42

0.946 (0.879–1.000)

  1. There was no significant difference between the scores in all subgroups
  2. *p < 0.05 compared with the rCAST score in patients with therapeutic hypothermia
  3. **p < 0.01 compared with the rCAST score in patients with therapeutic hypothermia