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Bokai Zhao1, Ye Shen1, Kelli Henry2

  • 1University of Georgia College of Public Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Athens, Georgia, USA.

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|July 11, 2026
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Summary
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The updated Medication Regimen Complexity-Intensive Care Unit (MRC-ICU) 2.0 score shows improved prediction of patient outcomes compared to the original score. This enhanced score offers complementary value when combined with traditional severity-of-illness measures.

Keywords:
critical caremedication regimen complexitymedication safetypharmacist

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Area of Science:

  • Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • The original Medication Regimen Complexity-Intensive Care Unit (MRC-ICU) score (1.0) was developed heuristically and validated in a small, single-center cohort.
  • The MRC-ICU score is linked to patient outcomes, ICU complications, and critical care pharmacist workload.
  • There is a need for improved predictive capabilities of the MRC-ICU score using data-driven methods in diverse patient populations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To reweight the MRC-ICU score using data-driven methodologies in a large, multicenter cohort of adult ICU patients.
  • To optimize the updated MRC-ICU score (version 2.0) for predicting hospital mortality, ICU fluid overload (FO), and invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) use.
  • To compare the predictive performance of the updated MRC-ICU scores (2.1 and 2.2) against the original MRC-ICU 1.0 and established severity-of-illness scores (APACHE II, SOFA).

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective, observational cohort study involving 19,117 adult ICU patients from two academic health systems (2015-2023).
  • Machine learning techniques, including Principal Component Analysis and Random Forest, were employed for score development and optimization.
  • Two versions of the updated score were created: MRC-ICU 2.1 (predicting mortality, FO, IMV) and MRC-ICU 2.2 (predicting mortality, FO, adjusted for prolonged IMV).

Main Results:

  • The updated MRC-ICU 2.0 scores demonstrated improved discrimination over MRC-ICU 1.0, with Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic (AUROC) increases of +0.03 to +0.08.
  • MRC-ICU 2.1 and 2.2 did not consistently outperform APACHE II and SOFA in predicting mortality.
  • Incorporating MRC-ICU 2.0 scores into models with APACHE II or SOFA resulted in statistically significant improvements in discrimination (AUROC increases of +0.01 to +0.13).

Conclusions:

  • The updated MRC-ICU 2.0 score consistently improved discrimination compared to MRC-ICU 1.0 across various outcomes and datasets.
  • MRC-ICU 2.0 performance was comparable to SOFA and APACHE II but did not consistently surpass them.
  • MRC-ICU 2.0 provides additional predictive value when used with traditional severity-of-illness scores, indicating its utility as a complementary clinical measure.