Acute respiratory distress syndrome mortality-Easier to predict, still hard to be certain

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2110-2111

  Scales, Damon C ^a,b   Gattas, David J ^c  

^a SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Critical care; Logistic models; Mortality; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG VENTILATION; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TIDAL VOLUME; NOTE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 66449134018     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181a5e673     Document Type: Editorial

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