• Critical care clinics · Jul 1993

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    Using severity measures to describe high performance intensive care units.

    • D Teres and S Lemeshow.
    • Adult Critical Care Division, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA.
    • Crit Care Clin. 1993 Jul 1;9(3):543-54.

    AbstractThis article describes the use of various scores and probabilities to clinically categorize patients in the adult intensive care unit. Some of the limitations of these severity measures are reviewed including variable definitions, timing of measurements, and whether models can be used for individual patients. Also, this article discusses how probability models may be used to compare similar types of intensive care units using standardized clinical and cost performance indices.

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