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Reliability and validity of the Addiction Severity Index among outpatients with severe mental illness.

Psychological Assessment, 1997
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, Karen M. Cocco, Christopher J. Correia   +2 more
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Hospitalizations at United States Children's Hospitals and Severity of Illness by Neighborhood Child Opportunity Index

The Journal of Pediatrics, 2023
To describe the association between neighborhood opportunity measured by the Child Opportunity Index 2.0 (COI) and patterns of hospital admissions and disease severity among children admitted to US pediatric hospitals.Retrospective, cross-sectional study of 773 743 encounters for children
Julia A. Heneghan, Denise M. Goodman, Sriram Ramgopal   +2 more
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Validity, Reliability and Implications of an Index of Inpatient Severity of Illness

Medical Care, 1981
We 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.
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Platelet Distribution Width to Platelet Count Ratio as an Index of Severity of Illness

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2017
To prospectively validate association between the ratio of platelet distribution width (PDW)/platelet count (PCT) and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) mortality.The study was done in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Platelet indices in the first sample taken after admission were used.
Pragati, Purbiya, Zainab Mohammedi, Golwala, Ayush, Manchanda, V, Sreenivas, Jacob M, Puliyel   +4 more
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Neonatal Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System: A Therapy-Based Severity-of-Illness Index

Pediatrics, 1992
Severity-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 ...
J E, Gray, D K, Richardson, M C, McCormick, K, Workman-Daniels, D A, Goldmann   +4 more
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The Severity of Illness Index as a severity adjustment to diagnosis-related groups.

Health care financing review, 1985
This article discusses the Severity of Illness case-mix groups, and suggests a refinement to diagnosis-related groups (DRG's) designed to accommodate the important element of patient severity. An application of the suggested refinement is presented in a discussion of the efficient production of hospital services. The following areas are addressed.
S D, Horn, R A, Horn, P D, Sharkey
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More Data on the Addiction Severity Index

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1992
The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) is a semistructured interview that collects data from substance abusers in seven problem areas: medical, employment, legal, alcohol, other drug use, family-social functioning, and psychological status. In each area, the clients provide an estimate of the seriousness of the problem and their need for treatment.
DAVID C., null HODGINS, NADY EL-GUEBALY
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"AS-SCORE": a multi-attribute clinical index of illness severity.

QRB. Quality review bulletin, 1980
As techniques to assess the quality of care have proliferated, appropriate concern has arisen about study methods employed by researchers. In particular, studies that focus on a single variable, such as mortality, length of stay (LOS), or complication rate, have sometimes been justly criticized because they have failed to account for differences in the
G C, Roveti, S D, Horn, S L, Kreitzer
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The severity of illness index: an interview with Susan D. Horn.

Health care strategic management, 1985
HCSM's interview this month is with Susan D. Horn, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Hospital Finance and Management at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Horn, heading a research team at Johns Hopkins, has developed a patient classification system based on patient severity and medical diagnosis.
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A Severity of Illness Index for Evaluation Pre-Hospital Care of Submariners with Abdominal Pain

1988
Abstract : It is difficult to compare the severity of different illnesses. Medical outcome measurements -- morbidity and mortality -- are not useful indicators. Another indicator is needed. A Severity of Illness Scale has been developed and validated on patients hospitalized with abdominal pain.
David Southerland, Bernard Ryack, George Moeller, Kendall Bryant, Morton Solomon   +4 more
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