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Psychiatric Severity of Illness

Medical Care, 1989
This study was undertaken to determine if a measure of severity of illness for psychiatric patients, the Psychiatric Severity of Illness Index, could produce psychiatric case mix groups that are more homogeneous with respect to resource use than the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs).
S D, Horn, A F, Chambers, P D, Sharkey, R A, Horn   +3 more
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Severity of Illness Within DRGs

Medical Care, 1986
The authors assess the ability of the Severity of Illness Index to explain variability of resource use within each DRG. The data came from 15 hospitals, all of which had a HCFA DRG case mix index greater than 1. The data set comprised approximately 106,000 discharges, for which discharge abstract data, financial data, and Severity of Illness data were ...
S D, Horn, R A, Horn, P D, Sharkey, A F, Chambers   +3 more
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Overview of severe mental illness

Clinical Psychology Review, 1997
The severe mental illnesses are psychiatric disorders characterized by their persistence and extensive disability. Classification of these disorders has seen improved reliability, but problems remain with validity. Etiological formulations emphasize the biological origins of the disorders, but psychological factors, chiefly in the area of stress, are ...
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Assessing the severity of depressive illness

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1992
Twenty-five psychiatrists ranked a set of hypothetical patient scenarios, based on the three depression rating scales (Hamilton, Hospital Anxiety and Depression, and Montgomery Asberg), in terms of severity of illness. The results indicate some scope for comparing different condition-specific outcome measures.
J A, Cairns, K M, Johnston
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The denial of severe mental illness

Psychiatric Services, 1997
Those who visit mental health programs in this and other countries often hear program directors say that by developing extensive and high-quality cornmunitv-based programs, they have reduced their long-term hospitalized patients to a remarkably low nuiither or have even eliminated the need for hospitals.
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Objective, quantitative measurement of severity of illness in critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine, 1984
Severity of illness must be quantitated in critically ill patients if studies of outcome and therapeutic efficacy are to be meaningful. Objective physiologic indicators of critical illness, such as pertinent laboratory values, can be quantitated using the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System--TISS.
D J, Cullen, R, Keene, C, Waternaux, H, Peterson   +3 more
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Basics of Stratifying for Severity of Illness

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 1996
Abstract Conventional wisdom suggests that those who assess healthcare processes and outcomes always should stratify cases by severity of illness; however, infection control personnel should analyze each quality assessment tool with and without severity adjustment and determine whether such adjustment is necessary.
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Measuring Severity of Illness: A Reliability Study

Medical Care, 1983
For a critical examination of the output of a hospital and to compare patients across hospitals, it is essential to measure severity of illness along with case mix. This article describes a new severity-of-illness index that is generic and may be applied to almost all hospital patients.
S D, Horn, B, Chachich, C, Clopton
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Severity of illness scoring systems

Anaesthesia & Intensive Care Medicine, 2004
Abstract Data collection on the ICU is necessary to facilitate research, quality assurance and resource management. Severity of illness scoring systems aid the case-mix adjusted collection of such data. However, none is perfect and their use to triage individual patients or to compare the quality of care in different ICUs is severely limited.
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Measuring Severity of Illness

1990
Scientific advance is dependent on the capacity to measure; and measurement requires the development of suitable instruments. Caring for the critically ill is an area of high-technology medicine where measurement forms an essential part of clinical management, and yet until recently there have been relatively few developments in measuring the single ...
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