Prospective comparison of clinical judgment and apache ii score in predicting the outcome in critically 111 surgical patients

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 747-754

  Meyer, Anthony A ^a   Messick, W Joseph ^a   Young, Peter ^a   Baker, Christopher C ^a   Fakhry, Samir ^a   Muakkassa, Farid ^b   Rutherford, Edmund J ^c   Napolitano, Lena M ^a   Rutledge, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMAN; JUDGMENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGE; NORTH CAROLINA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0026689321     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199206000-00013     Document Type: Article

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