Placing clinical variables on a common linear scale of empirically based risk as a step towards construction of a general patient acuity score from the electronic health record: A modelling study

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Rothman, Steven I ^a   Rothman, Michael J ^b   Solinger, Alan B ^c  

^a PeraHealth Inc   (United States)

^b PeraHealth Inc   (United States)

^c ABS Professionals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXPERT; MODIFIED EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TUKEY HONESTLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE TEST; UNITED STATES; VITAL SIGN;

EID: 84878443322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002367     Document Type: Article

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