Predicting mortality in patients suffering from prolonged critical illness: An assessment of four severity-of-illness measures

Chest

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 928-933

  Carson, Shannon S ^a   Bach, Peter B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronically critically ill; Epidemiology (methods); Hospital mortality; Intensive care; Long term care; Outcome assessment (health care); Prolonged critical illness; Severity of illness index

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034820458     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.120.3.928     Document Type: Article

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