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Reliability and Validity of the Severity of Illness Index

Medical Care, 1986
The authors discuss the objectives and definition of the Severity of Illness Index, which has been developed and refined at The Johns Hopkins University over the past 5 years. In addition, the training program for raters, the method used to ascertain reliability, and data from reliability testing in 18 hospitals are described.
Susan D. Horn, Roger A. Horn
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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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Relationship between severity, costs and claims of hospitalized patients using the Severity of Illness Index

European Journal of Epidemiology, 1994
The results of the prospective application of Horn's 'Severity of Illness Index' in a teaching hospital during 1987, 1989, and 1990 constitute the basis of the present report. The average overall severity of illness scores for the three years were 1.42 in 1987, 1.65 in 1989, and 1.46 in 1990.
Miguel A. Asenjo, Andreu Prat, José M. Bayas, Rafel Lledó, Lluisa Baré, J. Grau, Lluís Salleras   +6 more
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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, Jacob M Puliyel, Ayush Manchanda, Vishnubhatla Sreenivas   +4 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.
S. Horn
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Reliability and validity of the Addiction Severity Index among outpatients with severe mental illness. [PDF]

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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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 ...
Donald A. Goldmann, Douglas K. Richardson, Marie C. McCormick, Kathryn Workman-Daniels, James E. Gray   +4 more
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IV. The Severity of Illness Index

Medical Care, 1988
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The pulse oximeter perfusion index as a predictor for high illness severity in neonates [PDF]

European Journal of Pediatrics, 2002
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, Giuseppe Latini, Paola Vacca, Robert J. Kopotic   +3 more
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Screening for Mental Illness With the Addiction Severity Index

American Journal on Addictions, 1996
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, Patrick Myers, Jeanette Johnson, Eric Corty   +3 more
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