Predicting outcome in critical care: Past, present and future

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 542-543

  Kahn, Jeremy M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APACHE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HISTORY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS;

CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925940063     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0000000000000140     Document Type: Editorial

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