The Acute Patient Physiologic and Laboratory Evaluation (APPLE) Score: A Severity of Il lness Stratification System for Hospitalized Dogs

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1034-1047

  Hayes, G ^a   Mathews, K ^a   Doig, G ^b   Kruth, S ^a   Boston, S ^a   Nykamp, S ^a   Poljak, Z ^a   Dewey, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clinical epidemiology; Critical care; Dog; Illness severity; Mortality risk model; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DOG; DOG DISEASE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, ANIMAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 77957921045     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: 19391676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.2010.0552.x     Document Type: Article

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