Tree-based models for predicting mortality in Gram-negative bacteremia: Avoid putting the CART before the horse

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 838-844

  Rhodes, Nathaniel J ^a,b   Nicholas, J ^a,b   Lizza, Bryan D ^b   McLaughlin, Milena M ^a,b   Esterly, John S ^b,c   Scheetz, Marc H ^a,b  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME;

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE MODEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOGENICITY; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADULT; APACHE; BACTEREMIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84957922328     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.01564-15     Document Type: Article

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