What accounts for the difference between observed and predicted?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1552-1553

  Wagner, Douglas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; APACHE; ARTIFACT; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; CALIBRATION; HOSPITALIZATION; NOTE; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROC CURVE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CALIBRATION; CRITICAL CARE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33646545343     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000216182.21112.8B     Document Type: Editorial

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