Predictive mortality models are not like fine wine

Critical Care

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 636-637

  Kramer, Andrew A ^a  

^a CERNER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; APACHE; CALIBRATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; INTENSIVE CARE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BENCHMARKING; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FORECASTING; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 31744439227     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc3899     Document Type: Note

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