Survival Prediction Index

Small Animal Critical Care Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-12

  King, Lesley G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 79960864448     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4160-2591-7.10003-7     Document Type: Chapter

References (10)

1. King LG, Fordyce H, Campellone M, Maislin G Serial estimation of survival prediction indices does not improve outcome prediction in critically ill dogs with naturally occurring disease. J Vet Emerg Crit Care 2001, 11(3):183-189.
2. King LG, Stevens MT, Ostro ENS, et al. A model for prediction of survival in critically ill dogs. J Vet Emerg Crit Care. J Vet Emerg Crit Care 1995, 5:6. Correction:.
3. King LG, Wohl JS, Manning AM, et al. Evaluation of the survival prediction index as a model of risk stratification for clinical research in dogs admitted to intensive care units at four locations. Am J Vet Res 2001, 62:948.
4. Knaus WA, Draper EA, Wagner DP, et al. APACHE II: a severity of disease classification system. Crit Care Med 1985, 13:818.
5. Knaus WA, Wagner DP, Draper EA, et al. The APACHE III prognostic system: risk prediction of hospital mortality for critically ill hospitalized adults. Chest 1991, 100:1619.
6. Study tested whether calculation of the SPI 2 on serial days of hospitalization would result in an improvement in our ability to predict outcome.
7. This paper reports our first veterinary attempt to develop a scoring system analogous to APACHE in dogs hospitalized in the ICU.
8. This study, we included data from dogs in multiple locations, and increased the number of patients included in the study, to validate the SPI 1 and then generate a new and shorter outcome prediction equation: the SPI 2.
9. This is the original paper describing the APACHE II system for outcome prediction in people.
10. The APACHE III system was developed to refine APACHE II, using a much larger number of human patients.