Table 1 Hospital mortality and the patterns of minor criteria
| Minor criteria | NO. patients | NO. (%) deaths |
| Three strongest predictive values | 21 | 7 (33.3) |
| Two of the three strongest predictive values plus another minor criterion | 36 | 6 (16.7) |
| One of the three strongest predictive values plus other two minor criteria | 78 | 6 (7.7) |
| Other three minor criteria | 36 | 3 (8.3) |
| Total | 171 | 22 (12.9) |