Performance of intensive care unit severity scoring systems across different ethnicities in the USA: a retrospective observational study

Background Despite wide use of severity scoring systems for case-mix determination and benchmarking in the intensive care unit (ICU), the possibility of scoring bias across ethnicities has not been examined. Guidelines on the use of illness severity scores to inform triage decisions for allocation...

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Main Authors: Sarkar, Rahuldeb, Martin, Christopher, Mattie, Heather, Gichoya, Judy Wawira, Stone, David J, Celi, Leo Anthony G.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Medical Engineering & Science
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130358