A predictive model to identify hospitalized cancer patients at risk for 30-day mortality based on admission criteria via the electronic medical record

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2074-2080

  Ramchandran, Kavitha J ^a   Shega, Joseph W ^b   Von Roenn, Jamie ^c,d   Schumacher, Mark ^c   Szmuilowicz, Eytan ^c,e   Rademaker, Alfred ^d   Weitner, Bing Bing ^d   Loftus, Pooja D ^a   Chu, Isabella M ^a   Weitzman, Sigmund ^c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance Care Planning; Cancer; Electronic Medical Record; Hospitalized; Palliative Care; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE MODEL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VALIDATION STUDY; VITAL SIGN;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84878017967     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.27974     Document Type: Article

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