Stratification of the severity of critically ill patients with classification trees

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Trujillano, Javier ^a,b   Badia, Mariona ^a   Servi, Luis ^a   March, Jaume ^b   Rodriguez Pozo, Angel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI ARNAU DE VILANOVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DECISION TREE; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGED; APACHE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 73549122157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-9-83     Document Type: Article

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