Veterans Affairs intensive care unit risk adjustment model: Validation, updating, recalibration

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1031-1042

  Render, Marta L ^a,b   Deddens, James ^b   Freyberg, Ron ^b   Almenoff, Peter ^a,c   Connors Jr , Alfred F ^d   Wagner, Douglas ^e   Hofer, Timothy P ^a,f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; Medical informatics computing; Mortality; Outcome assessment; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS; VETERAN; VETERANS AFFAIRS INTENSIVE CARE UNIT SEVERITY MEASURE;

EID: 41649120320     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318169f290     Document Type: Article

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