Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
Development of a pediatric multiple organ dysfunction score: use of two strategies.
An organ dysfunction (OD) scoring system for critically ill children is not yet available, and the method for developing such a system is not well defined. The aim of this study was to compare two developmental methods for assessing OD in critically ill children. ⋯ The PELOD system was more discriminant and had the advantage of taking into account both the relative severities among ODs and the degree of severity of each OD.