Impact of different customization strategies in the performance of a general severity score

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2001-2008

  Moreno, Rui ^a,b   Apolone, Giovanni ^c  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO DOS CAPUCHOS   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical care; EURICUS I; Intensive care; Logistic regression; Mortality prediction; Mortality prediction models; MPM II; Outcome; Severity of illness index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; CRITICAL CARE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES; PATIENT ADMISSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031440060     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199712000-00017     Document Type: Article

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