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Published in: Critical Care 1/2017

Open Access 01-12-2017 | Editorial

Predicting critical illness mortality and personalizing therapy: moving to multi-dimensional data

Authors: Zudin A. Puthucheary, Paul Wischmeyer

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 1/2017

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Predicting mortality has been a corner piece of critical care research and practise dating back to the first descriptions of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation score in 1981 [1]. With an increasing burden of non-communicable disease in modern society, pre-existing functional status seems to an important contributor to outcome prediction. Poor physical function is an important predictor of mortality in ambulant diseases. The construct of frailty [2], translated from older patient care into critical care, has provided a useful language to discuss pre-morbid functional status. …
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Metadata
Title
Predicting critical illness mortality and personalizing therapy: moving to multi-dimensional data
Authors
Zudin A. Puthucheary
Paul Wischmeyer
Publication date
01-12-2017
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 1/2017
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-016-1597-6

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