Automated computerized intensive care unit severity of illness measure in the Department of Veterans Affairs: Preliminary results

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 3540-3546

  Render, Marta L ^a,b   Welsh, Deborah E ^d   Kollef, Marin ^e   Lott III, James H ^b   Hui, Siu ^f   Weinberger, Morris ^f   Tsevat, Joel ^c   Hayward, Rodney A ^d   Hofer, Timothy P ^d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Informatics; Intensive care unit; Mortality; Outcome; Severity adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLDIER;

EID: 0033791715     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200010000-00033     Document Type: Article

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