Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jun 1999
Comparative Study Clinical TrialValidation of "nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score" on an independent data sample.
To compare the recently developed "nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score" (NEMS) with the simplified Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS-28). ⋯ This study confirms a good agreement between TISS-28 and NEMS in a large, independent sample. However, as shown by the differences between medical and postoperative/trauma patients, a change in case mix may result in different regression equations. Further, wide limits of agreement indicate that there may be a rather large variability between the two measures at the individual level.