Outcome prediction in intensive care: Why we need to reinvent the wheel

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 483-484

  Moreno, Rui P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO DOS CAPUCHOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA BASE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PROCESS MODEL; PROGNOSIS;

CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 55349145281     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e328310dc7d     Document Type: Editorial

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