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Hospitals look to "severity of illness" indexes.

HealthSpan, 1986
Robinson Ml
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A Severity of Illness Index for Evaluation Pre-Hospital Care of Submariners with Abdominal Pain [PDF]

, 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.
Kendall Bryant, George Moeller, David G Southerland, Morton Solomon, Bernard L Ryack   +4 more
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Predictive ability of neonatal illness severity scores for early death in extremely premature infants

Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, 2020
Background The predictive ability of neonatal illness severity scores for mortality or morbidity in extremely premature infants has not been extensively studied.
Genichiro Sotodate, K. Oyama, Atsushi Matsumoto, Yu Konishi, Yukiko Toya, N. Takashimizu   +5 more
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Is Antipsychotic Treatment Associated With Risk of Pneumonia in People With Serious Mental Illness?: The Roles of Severity of Psychiatric Symptoms and Global Functioning.

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2019
BACKGROUND Most pneumonia-related researches in people with severe mental illness were based on insurance claims data. This study aimed for a comprehensive analysis of factors potentially associated with risk of pneumonia in psychiatric inpatients ...
H. Chan, Chien-Liang Lai, Yi-Chun Lin, Chun-Chi Hsu   +3 more
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Functional bowel disorders

Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 1995
In a multicenter study of patients with painful functional bowel disorders (FBD), we compared the demographic, health status, and diagnostic features of patients with FBD and developed a functional bowel disorder severity index (FBDSI) for research and clinical care.
Zhiming Li, Douglas A. Drossman, Nicholas E. Diamant, Brenda B. Toner, David R. Thompson, Leslie Bank, Francis Creed, Nicholas W. Read, Marcelo A. Barreiro, Elspeth Guthrie, Marvin M. Schuster, William E. Whitehead, Chris Babbs   +12 more
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A new patient focused index for measuring quality of life in persons with severe and persistent mental illness

Quality of Life Research, 1993
The quality of life in persons with severe and persistent mental illness is often poor. Most treatment programmes have the goal of increasing quality of life. Unfortunately, existing methods to assess quality of life are cumbersome and oriented towards research rather than clinical settings.
François Sainfort, Ronald J. Diamond, M. Becker   +2 more
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Impulsivity predicts illness severity in long-term course of bipolar disorder: A prospective approach

Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry (Print), 2018
Background: Bipolar disorder is a common, severe and chronic mental illness. Despite this, predictors of illness severity remain poorly understood. Impulsivity is reported to be associated with bipolar disorder and aggravating comorbidities.
Jonas Rote, Alice-Mai-Ly Dingelstadt, A. Aigner, M. Bauer, Jana Fiebig, B. König, J. Kunze, S. Pfeiffer, A. Pfennig, Esther Quinlivan, C. Simhandl, T. Stamm   +11 more
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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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Is the Addiction Severity Index a Reliable and Valid Assessment Instrument Among Clients with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness and Substance Abuse Disorders?

Community Mental Health Journal, 1997
This study examined aspects of reliability, validity and utility of Addiction Severity Index (ASI) data as administered to clients with severe and persistent mental illness (SMI) and concurrent substance abuse disorders enrolled in a publicly-funded community mental health center.A total of 62 clients with SMI volunteered to participate in an ...
Sara J. Corse, A T McLellan, D A Zanis
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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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