Predictive value of severity scoring systems: Comparison of four models in Tunisian adult intensive care units

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 852-869

  Nouira, Semir ^a,c   Belghith, Makhlouf ^b   Elatrous, Souheil ^a   Jaafoura, Mondher ^a   Ellouzi, Moez ^a   Boujdaria, Rafik ^a   Gahbiche, Mourad ^a   Bouchoucha, Slab ^b   Abroug, Fekri ^a  

^a University Hospital of Monastir   (Tunisia)

^b FARHAT HACHED HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^c FATTOUMA BOURGUIBA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; Critical care; Goodness of fit analysis; Intensive care; Mortality Prediction Model; Outcome prediction; Severity scoring systems; Simplified Acute Physiology Score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CALIBRATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULSE OXIMETRY; TUNISIA;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUNISIA;

EID: 0031947260     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199805000-00016     Document Type: Article

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