Severity scoring systems and the prediction of outcome from intensive care.

Severity scoring systems are tools that provide a predicted mortality for a group of intensive care unit patients on the basis of derangement of their physiology and some past medical history. This predicted mortality can then be compared with the actual mortality to give some indicator of the effec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Young, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2000