Derivation of a prognostic score for identifying critically ill patients in an emergency department resuscitation room

Resuscitation

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1000-1005

  Cattermole, Giles N ^a,b   Mak, S K Paulina ^a   Liow, C H Elizabeth ^c   Ho, Man Fung ^d   Hung, Kin Yee Grace ^e   Keung, Kai Man ^f   Li, Hoi Man ^g   Graham, Colin A ^a,b   Rainer, Timothy H ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d TUEN MUN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^e QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^f and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

^g UNITED CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Outcome; PEDS score

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BICARBONATE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEATH; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; MODIFIED EARLY WARNING SCORE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRINCE OF WALES EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RAPID EMERGENCY MEDICINE SCORE; RESUSCITATION; REVISED TRAUMA SCORE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68349100136     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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