From the Research
Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Score
The provided studies do not directly mention the Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) score. However, they discuss various scoring systems used in medical settings, such as the HACOR score, HAVOC score, ASPECTS score, and others.
Scoring Systems
- The HACOR score is used to predict noninvasive ventilation (NIV) failure in patients with acute-on-chronic respiratory failure 1, 2.
- The HAVOC score is used to predict atrial fibrillation in patients with cryptogenic stroke 3.
- The ASPECTS score is used to guide thrombolytic therapy and predict functional outcomes in patients with acute ischemic stroke 4.
- Other scoring systems, such as the Rapid Acute Physiology Score (RAPS), Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS), and National Early Warning Score (NEWS), are used to quantify levels of vital sign abnormality and predict mortality in acutely admitted medical patients 5.
Predictive Power
- The HACOR score has high sensitivity and specificity for predicting NIV failure in non-COPD patients with acute-on-chronic respiratory failure 1.
- The updated HACOR score has high predictive power for NIV failure in patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure 2.
- The HAVOC score identifies a subset of individuals at greatest risk of developing atrial fibrillation 3.
- The ASPECTS score is associated with poor functional outcomes in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage 4.
- The Goodacre and Worthing physiological scores have good discriminatory power at identifying patients at increased risk of 24-h and in-hospital mortality 5.