Predict the risk of mortality in the ICU. The main purposes of this study were to assess the strength of both the scores in predicting the mortalitySCritical CareMarch 2009 Vol 13 Suppl29th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicinerisk, PPADS tetrasodium to check which one gained the best performance, and to ascertain whether they also achieved a good level of morbidity risk prediction in our patient population. Methods Two hundred and forty-one patients (82 female, 159 male, mean age 53 ?23), out of 393 admitted to our ICU over 12 months, were included in the study. Exclusion criteria were age PubMed ID:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8476056 a high degree of discriminative strength in predicting the morbidity rate (AUC = 0.81, P