Severity-of-illness scores for neutropenic cancer patients in an intensive care unit: Which is the best predictor? Do multiple assessment times improve the predictive value?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 488-493

  Guiguet, Marguerite ^a   Blot, François ^b   Escudier, Bernard ^b   Antoun, Sami ^b   Leclercq, Bernard ^b   Nitenberg, Gérard ^b  

^a HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Hospital mortality; Intensive care unit; Neutropenia; Severity of illness scores

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APACHE; CHILD; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031933618     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199803000-00020     Document Type: Review

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