Does acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II provide a valid metric to directly compare disease severity in trauma versus surgical intensive care unit patients?

American Surgeon

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1261-1269

  Becher, Robert D ^a   Chang, Michael C ^a   Hoth, J Jason ^a   Kendall, Jennifer L ^a   Beard, H Randall ^a   Miller, Preston R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; APACHE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRAUMA INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

APACHE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84867919848     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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