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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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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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