1998
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199809000-00009
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Predicting Outcome in the Intensive Care Unit Using Scoring Systems

Abstract: SAPS II offers a real improvement compared with SAPS in its ability to explain hospital mortality, but its standard parameters do not fit our data from Italy. The role and impact of potential determinants of this lack of fit, such as random errors and confounders related to casemix and/or quality of care should be clarified before this scoring system be used outside formal research projects. Special caution is suggested when SAPS II is adopted to predict mortality to compare intensive care unit performance acr… Show more

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“…Ten years later, a new generation of these instruments was published: APACHE III [4], SAPS II [5], and Mortality Probability Model (MPM) II [6]. All of these newer systems were developed by using sophisticated statistical techniques in large multinational databases, and were found to perform better than their predecessors [7, 8]. …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ten years later, a new generation of these instruments was published: APACHE III [4], SAPS II [5], and Mortality Probability Model (MPM) II [6]. All of these newer systems were developed by using sophisticated statistical techniques in large multinational databases, and were found to perform better than their predecessors [7, 8]. …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%