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Validity, Reliability and Implications of an Index of Inpatient Severity of Illness
Medical Care, 1981We discuss statistical characteristics of AS-SCORE, a recently developed index of illness severity for medical patients. The acronym "AS-SCORE" indicates the five major attributes of the index: age, system involved, stage of the disease, complications and response to therapy.
S. Horn
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Neonatal Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System: A Therapy-Based Severity-of-Illness Index
Pediatrics, 1992Severity-of-illness scales have proven valuable able in assessing clinical outcomes and resource consumption in adult and pediatric intensive care, but they have been less extensively developed for neonatal care. The National Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (NTISS) was created by modifying the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS ...
Donald A. Goldmann+4 more
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Reliability and validity of the Addiction Severity Index among outpatients with severe mental illness. [PDF]
This study provides psychometric data for the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) when administered to persons with severe and persistent mental disorders. Participants were 97 outpatients (26 women) at a public psychiatric facility. The internal consistency of the composite scores was lower in this psychiatric sample than in previous nonpsychiatric samples.
Kate B. Carey+2 more
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The pulse oximeter perfusion index as a predictor for high illness severity in neonates [PDF]
Following the first development in its modern form in 1972 by Takuo Aoyagi [1], pulse oximetry has become invaluable for monitoring oxygenation and pulse rate [4]. A constant amount of light (DC) from the pulseoximeter is absorbed by skin, other tissues, and nonpulsatile blood, while a variable amount of light (AC) is absorbed by pulsating arterial ...
Claudio De Felice+3 more
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Screening for Mental Illness With the Addiction Severity Index
The authors assessed the relationship of the psychological composite score (PCS) of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) to the presence of current DSM‐III‐R depressive, anxiety, psychotic, and somatoform disorders. A total of 365 patients in two inner‐city psychiatric units received the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM‐III‐R (SCID) and the ASI. The
Lisa B. Dixon+3 more
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Development and Validation of the Nursing Severity Index
Medical Care, 1992The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the Nursing Severity Index, a new method used to measure the admission severity of illness of hospital patients using nursing diagnoses, which categorize biologic, functional, cognitive, and psychosocial abnormalities.
C Pinkley+4 more
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Children residing in impoverished neighborhoods have reduced access to health care resources. Our objective was to identify potential associations between Child Opportunity Index (COI), a composite score of neighborhood characteristics, and inpatient severity of illness and clinical trajectory among United States (US) children.This retrospective cohort
Anjali Garg+3 more
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Use of Severity of Illness Indexes for Assessing Health Care Provider Performance [PDF]
Abstract : This study was conducted to determine if case severity is significantly related to surgical mortality and morbidity outcomes. Inpatient records were reviewed to retrieve information on case severity and whether mortalities or complications had occurred during the surgical procedures.
Michael Kennedy
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This study aimed to make a comparison between classical shock index (SI), modified shock index (MSI), and age shock index (age SI) for predicting critical patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with gastrointestinal bleeding (GIS).The study, which was planned retrospectively, consisted of patients diagnosed with GIS bleeding at the ED ...
Salih Kocaoğlu, Hasan Basri ÇETİNKAYA
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