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Intensive Care Medicine
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 9/2007

01-09-2007 | Editorial

Future trends in illness severity scores

Author: Gareth Parry

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 9/2007

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Excerpt

Sir, The paper by Kuzniewicz and colleagues [1] provides some timely suggestions for improving future intensive care severity scoring systems. They base their conclusions on results of an analytical experiment conducted in a neonatal intensive care setting. …
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Metadata
Title
Future trends in illness severity scores
Author
Gareth Parry
Publication date
01-09-2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 9/2007
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-007-0736-6

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