Intensive care unit scoring systems outperform emergency department scoring systems for mortality prediction in critically ill patients: A prospective cohort study

Journal of Intensive Care

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Moseson, Erika M ^a   Zhuo, Hanjing ^b   Chu, Jeff ^b   Stein, John C ^c   Matthay, Michael A ^b,d   Kangelaris, Kirsten N ^b   Liu, Kathleen D ^b   Calfee, Carolyn S ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

APACHE; Calibration; Critical illness; Emergency medicine; Intensive care unit; Mortality; SAPS

Indexed keywords

AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY ASSESSMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SERVICE; MODIFIED EARLY WARNING SCORE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRE HOSPITAL CRITICAL ILLNESS PREDICTION SCORE; PREDICTION; PRINCE OF WALES EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT SCORE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAPID EMERGENCY MEDICINE SCORE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

EID: 84979195118     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20520492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2052-0492-2-40     Document Type: Article

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