Scoring for multiple organ dysfunction: Multiple organ dysfunction score, logistic organ dysfunction, or sequential organ failure assessment

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1913-1914

  Dominguez, Troy E ^a   Portnoy, Joel D ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Critical; Discrimination; Intensive care; Mortality; Multiple organ dysfunction; Outcome; Prediction; Score

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 0036345692     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200208000-00045     Document Type: Editorial

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