Combining multiple comorbidities with Acute Physiology Score to predict hospital mortality of critically ill patients: A linked data cohort study

Anaesthesia

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1095-1100

  Ho, K M ^a   Finn, J ^b   Knuiman, M ^b   Webb, S A R ^a,c  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; ROC CURVE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; APACHE; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 35048815995     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05231.x     Document Type: Article

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