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Severity of illness coding

2005
Abstract Since 1993 the WONCA Classification Committee has been developing the Duke Severity of Illness Checklist (DUSOI) system for international use. The WONCA Severity of Illness Field Trial (WONCA-SIFT) was conducted to test the system in 16 countries.
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Severity of Illness Measures: Opportunities for Clinicians

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1988
Excerpt The prospective payment system for health services for Medicare beneficiaries has reversed the tide of "pay-as-you-go" reimbursement (1).
J B, Couch, D B, Nash
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Severity of Illness Scoring Systems

2002
Despite at least 20 years of evolution and with an ever-increasing number of systems, severity of illness quantification remains an imperfect and misused art. To many practicing clinicians the subject remains difficult and is often misinterpreted. Significant discrepancies exist between what these systems actually tell us and what we would like to know.
J. A. S. Ball, J. W. Redman, R. M. Grounds   +2 more
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Severity of illness scoring systems

2016
Abstract Clinical outcome comparisons for research and quality assurance require risk adjustment measures validated in the population of interest. There are many scoring systems using intensive care unit (ICU)-specific or administrative data sets, or both.
Graeme K. Hart, David Pilcher
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Stabilization and Transport of Severely Ill Infants

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1973
A discussion of newest methods and a presentation of case material constitute this report on the specialized intensive care transport of critically ill infants to regional medical centers.
M D, Cunningham, F R, Smith
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Community-acquired pneumonia: severity of illness evaluation

Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2004
Severity-of-illness assessment is now an accepted part of clinical practice and clinical research for the management of adults who have community-acquired pneumonia. Several approaches to this issue have been devised based on severity-of-illness scores or rules, some related to site of management.
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Needs of people with severe mental illness

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2006
Objective:  This study reviews conceptual and methodological issues of needs for care among people with severe mental illness (SMI) and presents data on their prevalence, correlates and consequences for mental health care.Method:  Focus is on the definition of the concept of need as what people can benefit from and its measurement by means of two ...
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Severity of Illness Scoring Systems

2001
The degree of illness of patients admitted to ICUs varies enormously. The severity of illness affects resource and manpower utilization, length of stay, complication rate, and outcome. To adequately compare and contrast critically ill patients, it is useful to quantitate the severity of their illness.
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Diagnosis-Related Groups and Severity of Illness

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986
To the Editor.— The "insensitivity of the DRGs [diagnosis-related groups] to severity of illness" mentioned by Dr Mullin 1 is a major problem for two reasons. First, ignoring the importance of "severity of illness" may sound the death knell for DRGs as the preferred basis of prospective payment.
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Measurement of patient illness severity

Critical Care Medicine, 1982
H R, Champion, W J, Sacco
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