Validation of Decision Groups in Patients with Dengue Fever: A Study during 2015 Outbreak in Taiwan

Wei-Ta Huang Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan;

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Chien-Chin Hsu Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan;
Department of Biotechnology, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan;

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Shih-Bin Su Department of Occupational Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan;
Department of Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan;
Department of Medical Research, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan;

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Hung-Jung Lin Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan;
Department of Biotechnology, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan;
Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan;

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Chien-Cheng Huang Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan;
Department of Occupational Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan;
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan;
Department of Senior Services, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Tainan, Taiwan;
Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

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https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0289
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Volume 99: Issue 5
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The management of dengue fever (DF) has been suggested to be categorized into decision groups A, B, and C; however, its usefulness in predicting mortality is still unclear, and hence we conducted this study to clarify this issue. We conducted a study by recruiting 2,358 patients with DF from the 2015 outbreak in the Chi-Mei Medical Center. Demographic data, vital signs, clinical symptoms and signs, coexisting morbidities, laboratory data, decision groups categorized according to World Health Organization for clinical management of dengue in 2012, and 30-day mortality rates were included for analysis. The overall 30-day mortality rate was 1.4%. The 30-day mortality rates in decision groups A, B, and C were 0%, 0.5%, and 46.2%, respectively. Compared with Group A, there was a higher mortality risk in Group C (odds ratio [OR]: 1,480, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 195–11,200). The area under the curve of the variable of Group C was excellent (OR: 0.92, 95% CI: 0.85–0.99). The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value for predicting 30-day mortality in Group C were 88.2%, 98.5%, 46.2%, and 99.8%, respectively. This study showed that decision Group C has a good predictive value for 30-day mortality. Further studies including validation in other nations are warranted.

Author Notes

Address correspondence to Chien-Cheng Huang, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, 901 Zhonghua Rd., Tainan 710, Taiwan. E-mail: chienchenghuang@yahoo.com.tw

Financial support: Grant CMFHR10611 was received from Chi-Mei Medical Center.

Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was approved by the institutional review board at CMMC and strictly conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki. All data were anonymized. The informed consent of the participants was waived because of the retrospective design of the study.

Authors’ addresses: Wei-Ta Huang, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan, E-mail: ahdar0213@yahoo.com.tw. Chien-Chin Hsu, Hung-Jung Lin, and Chien-Cheng Huang, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, E-mails: nych2525@gmail.com, hjlin52@gmail.com, and chienchenghuang@yahoo.com.tw. Shih-Bin Su, Department of Occupational Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan, E-mail: shihbin.su@msa.hinet.net.

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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© The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2018
Received:
04 Apr 2018
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Accepted:
14 Aug 2018
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Published Online:
24 Sep 2018
Cover The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
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0002-9637
Online ISSN:
1476-1645
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