Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 (PIM2) - A prognostic tool for developing countries: Easy, efficient, and free!

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-78

  Garcia, Pedro Celiny Ramos ^a   Piva, Jefferson Pedro ^b  

^a Hospital São Lucas   (Brazil)

^b PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Clinical score; Intensive care; Latin America; Mortality; Outcome assessment; Pediatric Index of Mortality 2; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PEDIATRIC INDEX OF MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

ARGENTINA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LATIN AMERICA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33846504795     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pcc.0000256687.90460.4d     Document Type: Editorial

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