Prediction of hospital mortality from admission laboratory data and patient age: A simple model

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 354-363

  Asadollahi, Khairollah ^a,b   Hastings, Ian M ^a   Gill, Geoffrey V ^a   Beeching, Nicholas J ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ILAM UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acute admission; Laboratory data; Mortality; Outcome; Scoring system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL PATIENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79958774841     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01410.x     Document Type: Article

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