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01-12-2015 | Poster presentation
Prediction of 60-day case fatality after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: external validation of a prediction model
Authors:
S Dijkland, B Roozenbeek, P Brouwer, H Lingsma, D Dippel, L Vergouw, M Vergouwen, M Van der Jagt
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a devastating disease with substantial morbidity and mortality. Prognostic modeling is an important instrument to identify high-risk patients in both clinical practice and research settings. Recently, a prognostic model to predict 60-day case fatality after aneurysmal SAH was developed with data from the International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT) [
1]. Our aim was to externally validate this model in a retrospective cohort of consecutive SAH patients. …