Clinical data management systems typically provide caregiver teams with useful information,
derived from large, sometimes highly heterogeneous, data sources that are often changing …

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Background Many mortality prediction models have been developed for patients in intensive
care units (ICUs); most are based on data available at ICU admission. We investigated …

Objectives To evaluate how often newly developed risk prediction models undergo external
validation and how well they perform in such validations. Study Design and Setting We …

Background Improved mortality prediction for patients in intensive care units is a big
challenge. Many severity scores have been proposed, but findings of validation studies have …

A new edition of the definitive guide to logistic regression modeling for health science and
other applications This thoroughly expanded Third Edition provides an easily accessible …

Objective.—To develop and validate a new Simplified Acute Physiology Score, the SAPS II,
from a large sample of surgical and medical patients, and to provide a method to convert the …

Objectives The relationship between physiologic status and mortality risk should be
reevaluated as new treatment protocols, therapeutic interventions, and monitoring strategies …

Objective: To improve the accuracy of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation
(APACHE) method for predicting hospital mortality among critically ill adults and to evaluate …

Objectives: The Society of Critical Care Medicine and four other major critical care
organizations have endorsed a seven-step process to resolve disagreements about …