Pediatric Risk of Mortality: An assessment of its performance in a sample of 26 Italian intensive care units

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1427-1432

  Bertolini, Guido ^a   Ripamonti, Donata ^b   Cattaneo, Alessandro ^a   Apolone, Giovanni ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b SAN CARLO BORROMEO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critical care; Intensive care unit; Mortality prediction; Patient outcome assessment; Pediatric intensive care; Pediatrics; Quality of health care; Risk assessment; Severity of illness index

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031902143     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199808000-00031     Document Type: Article

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