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ICU Management

Optimised-prediction-of-all-cause-mortality-of-icu-patients

2022 11 Oct

Outcomes research on ICU patients requires accurate measures of comorbidity to predict mortality. The Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS3) is widely used and provides some information on comorbidity. The Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) uses general comorbidity measures and may not be sufficiently discriminative. These risk scores use the presence...Read more