Clinical review: Scoring systems in the critically ill

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Vincent, Jean Louis ^a   Moreno, Rui ^b  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO DOS CAPUCHOS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; APACHE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOGISTIC ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; MORTALITY PROBABILITY MODEL; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; HOSPITALIZATION;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 78149268444     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8204     Document Type: Review

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