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Pediatr Crit Care Me · Feb 2013
Do interventions in an ICU affect the predictive ability of pediatric index of mortality and pediatric index of mortality-2 scores in a tertiary care hospital?
Our objective was to evaluate the effect of interventions in the initial period of stabilization (i.e., at 4 hrs) on the predictive ability of Pediatric Index of Mortality and Pediatric Index of Mortality-2 scores and to evaluate their performance in our ICU. ⋯ Interventions in the first 4 hrs did not affect the predictive ability of Pediatric Index of Mortality and Pediatric Index of Mortality-2 scores. The 4-hr scores may be used in place of the 1-hr score, particularly in units where scoring is not possible with in the 1-hr time frame.