External validation of the simplified acute physiology score (SAPS) 3 in a cohort of 28,357 patients from 147 Italian intensive care units

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1916-1924

  Poole, Daniele ^a   Rossi, Carlotta ^b   Anghileri, Abramo ^b   Giardino, Michele ^b   Latronico, Nicola ^c   Radrizzani, Danilo ^d   Langer, Martin ^e   Bertolini, Guido ^b  

^a SAN MARTINO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^d Ospedale Civile   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Critical care; Hospital mortality; Intensive care; Outcome assessment; Validation study

Indexed keywords

AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ITALY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; APACHE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CALIBRATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73949121328     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1615-0     Document Type: Article

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