A laboratory-based risk score for medical intensive care patients

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 855-862

  Stachon, Axel ^a   Segbers, Elmar ^a   Hering, Steffen ^a   Kempf, Reiner ^a   Holland Letz, Tim ^b   Krieg, Michael ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II); Intensive care; Risk score; Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II)

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CHOLESTEROL; CREATININE; SODIUM ION; UREA;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SCORING SYSTEM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AGED; APACHE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 44949217397     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2008.136     Document Type: Article

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