Development and validation of a decision tree early warning score based on routine laboratory test results for the discrimination of hospital mortality in emergency medical admissions

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1494-1499

  Jarvis, Stuart W ^a   Kovacs, Caroline ^a   Badriyah, Tessy ^a   Briggs, Jim ^a   Mohammed, Mohammed A ^a,b   Meredith, Paul ^c   Schmidt, Paul E ^c   Featherstone, Peter I ^c   Prytherch, David R ^a,c   Smith, Gary B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c PORTSMOUTH HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biochemistry; Early warning scores; Haematology; Illness severity score; Risk prediction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; DEATH; DECISION TREE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY WARNING SCORE; EMERGENCY CARE; HEMATOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIOCHEMISTRY; EARLY WARNING SCORES; HAEMATOLOGY; ILLNESS SEVERITY SCORE; RISK PREDICTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 84886789147     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.05.018     Document Type: Article

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