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01-01-2012 | Editorial

How standard is the “S” in SMR?

Authors: J. Geoffrey Chase, Geoffrey M. Shaw

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 1/2012

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Prognostic models are both a useful everyday tool and an ongoing “holy grail” in many fields of medicine. Their potential and use in clinical management of patients can have significant health, social and economic impact [1‐4]. Hence, the search for better, more accurate, and better discriminating models that require only the most certain and measurable of input data is an ongoing task [3, 5, 6]. …

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Title: How standard is the “S” in SMR?
Authors: J. Geoffrey Chase
Geoffrey M. Shaw
Publication date: 01-01-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 1/2012
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-011-2392-0

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