Development of END-of-Life ScorING-System to identify critically ill patients after initial critical care who are highly likely to die: A pilot study

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1318-1328

  Villa, G ^a,b   De Gaudio, A R ^a,b   Falsini, S ^a,b   Lanini, I ^a,b   Curtis, J R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; Palliative care; Terminal care

Indexed keywords

VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CALIBRATION; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DYING; END OF LIFE SCORING SYSTEM; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PILOT STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; TERMINAL CARE; ALGORITHM; APACHE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; APACHE; COHORT STUDIES; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84950309896     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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