Keeping Score of Severity Scores: Taking the Next Step

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 639-640

  Liu, Vincent ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; informatics; risk adjustment; sepsis; severity of illness index

Indexed keywords

APACHE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; INFECTION; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84959373116     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001501     Document Type: Editorial

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