Predicting mortality or recognizing death in meningococcal disease? Pediatric Risk of Mortality (PRISM) and Pediatric Index of Mortality (PIM) [5]

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1675-1676

  Thorburn, Kentigern ^a   Baines, Paul ^a  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MORTALITY; PEDIATRICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPTIC SHOCK;

EID: 0036310078     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200207000-00061     Document Type: Letter

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1. Can generic scores (Pediatric Risk of Mortality and Pediatric Index of Mortality) replace specific scores in predicting the outcome of presumed meningococcal septic shock in children?
2. Paediatric index of mortality (PIM): A mortality prediction model for children in intensive care
3. Pediatric risk of mortality (PRISM) score
4. Mortality in severe meningococcal disease
5. PRISM III: An updated pediatric risk of mortality score
6. Update on meningococcal disease with emphasis on pathogenesis and clinical management