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Ability of combined soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor to predict preventable emergency attendance in older patients in Japan: a prospective pilot study
Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) is a strong and nonspecific inflammatory biomarker that reflects various immunologic reactions, organ damage, and risk of mortality in the general population. Although prior research in acute medical patients showed that an elevation in suPAR...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9639425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36353607 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14322 |
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author | Mitsunaga, Toshiya Ohtaki, Yuhei Yajima, Wataru Sugiura, Kei Seki, Yutaka Mashiko, Kunihiro Uzura, Masahiko Takeda, Satoshi |
author_facet | Mitsunaga, Toshiya Ohtaki, Yuhei Yajima, Wataru Sugiura, Kei Seki, Yutaka Mashiko, Kunihiro Uzura, Masahiko Takeda, Satoshi |
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description | Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) is a strong and nonspecific inflammatory biomarker that reflects various immunologic reactions, organ damage, and risk of mortality in the general population. Although prior research in acute medical patients showed that an elevation in suPAR is related to intensive care unit admission and risk of readmission and mortality, no studies have focused on the predictive value of suPAR for preventable emergency attendance (PEA). This study aims to evaluate the predictive value of suPAR, which consists of a combination of white blood cell count (WBC), C-reactive protein (CRP), and the National Early Warning Score (NEWS), for PEA in older patients (>65 years) without trauma who presented to the emergency department (ED). This single-center prospective pilot study was conducted in the ED of the Association of EISEIKAI Medical and Healthcare Corporation Minamitama Hospital, in Hachiouji City, Tokyo, Japan, from September 16, 2020, to June 21, 2022. The study included all patients without trauma aged 65 years or older who were living in their home or a facility and presented to the ED when medical professionals decided an emergency consultation was required. Discrimination was assessed by plotting the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve and calculating the area under the ROC curve (AUC). During the study period, 49 eligible older patients were included, and thirteen (26.5%) PEA cases were detected. The median suPAR was significantly lower in the PEA group than in the non-PEA group (p < 0.05). For suPAR, the AUC for the prediction of PEA was 0.678 (95% CI 0.499–0.842, p < 0.05), and there was no significant difference from other variables as follows: 0.801 (95% CI 0.673–0.906, p < 0.001) for WBC, 0.833 (95% CI 0.717–0.934, p < 0.001) for CRP, and 0.693 (95% CI 0.495–0.862, p < 0.05) for NEWS. Furthermore, the AUC for predicting PEA was 0.867 (95% CI 0.741–0.959, p < 0.001) for suPAR + WBC + CRP + NEWS, which was significantly higher than that of the original suPAR (p < 0.01). The cutoff values, sensitivity, specificity, and odds ratio of suPAR and suPAR + WBC + CRP + NEWS were 7.5 and 22.88, 80.6% and 83.3%, 53.8% and 76.9%, and 4.83 and 16.67, respectively. This study has several limitations. First, this was pilot study, and we included a small number of older patients. Second, the COVID-19 pandemic occurred during the study period, so that there may be selection bias in the study population. Third, our hospital is a secondary emergency medical institution, and as such, we did not treat very fatal cases, which could be another cause of selection bias. Our single-center study has demonstrated the moderate utility of the combined suPAR as a triage tool for predicting PEA in older patients without trauma receiving home medical care. Before introducing suPAR to the prehospital setting, evidence from multicenter studies is needed. |
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spelling | pubmed-96394252022-11-08 Ability of combined soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor to predict preventable emergency attendance in older patients in Japan: a prospective pilot study Mitsunaga, Toshiya Ohtaki, Yuhei Yajima, Wataru Sugiura, Kei Seki, Yutaka Mashiko, Kunihiro Uzura, Masahiko Takeda, Satoshi PeerJ Emergency and Critical Care Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) is a strong and nonspecific inflammatory biomarker that reflects various immunologic reactions, organ damage, and risk of mortality in the general population. Although prior research in acute medical patients showed that an elevation in suPAR is related to intensive care unit admission and risk of readmission and mortality, no studies have focused on the predictive value of suPAR for preventable emergency attendance (PEA). This study aims to evaluate the predictive value of suPAR, which consists of a combination of white blood cell count (WBC), C-reactive protein (CRP), and the National Early Warning Score (NEWS), for PEA in older patients (>65 years) without trauma who presented to the emergency department (ED). This single-center prospective pilot study was conducted in the ED of the Association of EISEIKAI Medical and Healthcare Corporation Minamitama Hospital, in Hachiouji City, Tokyo, Japan, from September 16, 2020, to June 21, 2022. The study included all patients without trauma aged 65 years or older who were living in their home or a facility and presented to the ED when medical professionals decided an emergency consultation was required. Discrimination was assessed by plotting the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curve and calculating the area under the ROC curve (AUC). During the study period, 49 eligible older patients were included, and thirteen (26.5%) PEA cases were detected. The median suPAR was significantly lower in the PEA group than in the non-PEA group (p < 0.05). For suPAR, the AUC for the prediction of PEA was 0.678 (95% CI 0.499–0.842, p < 0.05), and there was no significant difference from other variables as follows: 0.801 (95% CI 0.673–0.906, p < 0.001) for WBC, 0.833 (95% CI 0.717–0.934, p < 0.001) for CRP, and 0.693 (95% CI 0.495–0.862, p < 0.05) for NEWS. Furthermore, the AUC for predicting PEA was 0.867 (95% CI 0.741–0.959, p < 0.001) for suPAR + WBC + CRP + NEWS, which was significantly higher than that of the original suPAR (p < 0.01). The cutoff values, sensitivity, specificity, and odds ratio of suPAR and suPAR + WBC + CRP + NEWS were 7.5 and 22.88, 80.6% and 83.3%, 53.8% and 76.9%, and 4.83 and 16.67, respectively. This study has several limitations. First, this was pilot study, and we included a small number of older patients. Second, the COVID-19 pandemic occurred during the study period, so that there may be selection bias in the study population. Third, our hospital is a secondary emergency medical institution, and as such, we did not treat very fatal cases, which could be another cause of selection bias. Our single-center study has demonstrated the moderate utility of the combined suPAR as a triage tool for predicting PEA in older patients without trauma receiving home medical care. Before introducing suPAR to the prehospital setting, evidence from multicenter studies is needed. PeerJ Inc. 2022-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9639425/ /pubmed/36353607 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14322 Text en ©2022 Mitsunaga et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Emergency and Critical Care Mitsunaga, Toshiya Ohtaki, Yuhei Yajima, Wataru Sugiura, Kei Seki, Yutaka Mashiko, Kunihiro Uzura, Masahiko Takeda, Satoshi Ability of combined soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor to predict preventable emergency attendance in older patients in Japan: a prospective pilot study |
title | Ability of combined soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor to predict preventable emergency attendance in older patients in Japan: a prospective pilot study |
title_full | Ability of combined soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor to predict preventable emergency attendance in older patients in Japan: a prospective pilot study |
title_fullStr | Ability of combined soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor to predict preventable emergency attendance in older patients in Japan: a prospective pilot study |
title_full_unstemmed | Ability of combined soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor to predict preventable emergency attendance in older patients in Japan: a prospective pilot study |
title_short | Ability of combined soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor to predict preventable emergency attendance in older patients in Japan: a prospective pilot study |
title_sort | ability of combined soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor to predict preventable emergency attendance in older patients in japan: a prospective pilot study |
topic | Emergency and Critical Care |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9639425/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36353607 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14322 |
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