Reliability of intensive care unit admitting and comorbid diagnoses, race, elements of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score, and predicted probability of mortality in an electronic intensive care unit database

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 401-407

  Wenner, Joshua B ^a   Norena, Monica ^a   Khan, Nadia ^a,b   Palepu, Anita ^a,b   Ayas, Najib T ^b   Wong, Hubert ^a,b   Dodek, Peter M ^a,b  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Observer Variation; Reproducibility of results; Severity of illness index

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RACE; SEPSIS;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; APACHE; COMORBIDITY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67949106370     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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