Outcome prediction in critical care: Physicians' prognoses vs. scoring systems

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 606-611

  Scholz, N ^a   Basler K ^b   Saur, P ^b   Burchardi, H ^b   Felder, Stefan ^a,c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diagnosis, prognosis, treatment outcome; Epidemiological methods, data collection, health surveys, health status indicators, apache II; Intensive care units; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MODEL; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE II; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; AREA UNDER CURVE; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; ROC CURVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4544349399     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026502150400804X     Document Type: Article

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