PRISM III: An updated pediatric risk of mortality score

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 743-752

  Pollack, Murray M ^a,b,c,e   Patel, Kantilal M ^b,c   Ruttimann, Urs E ^b,d  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^e CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

critical illness; intensive care unit, pediatric; mortality prediction; patient outcome assessment; pediatrics; severity of illness index

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; PEDIATRICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029931329     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199605000-00004     Document Type: Article

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