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Disaggregating Data: From Groups to Individuals

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Evaluating Critical Care

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care Medicine ((UICMSOFT,volume 35))

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The literature relating to intensive care outcomes and health services research, in particular using scoring systems to assess severity of illness, has expanded rapidly in the past ten years. Indeed, assessment of severity of illness has been a corner-stone in this process, helping us to understand, and thus to describe, on an international basis the types of patient we are treating in the intensive care unit (ICU). Scoring systems such as the acute physiology, and chronic health evaluation (APACHE, three successive generations) [1, 2], the mortality probability model (MPM) [3] and the simplified acute physiology score (SAPS, I and II) [4, 5], were initially proposed to describe severity of illness and predict the mortality of groups of patients and not to predict the prognosis of a given individual.

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  1. Critical Care, University of Toronto, Canada

    William J. Sibbald MD, FRCPC, FCCHSE (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief) (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief)

  2. Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women’s College, Health Sciences Centre, M4N 3M5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    William J. Sibbald MD, FRCPC, FCCHSE (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief) (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief)

  3. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, B15 27H, Birmingham, UK

    Julian F. Bion FRCP, FRCA, MD (Reader and Regional Advisor in Intensive Care Medicine) (Reader and Regional Advisor in Intensive Care Medicine)

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Carlet, J., Montuclard, L., Garrouste-Orgeas, M. (2002). Disaggregating Data: From Groups to Individuals. In: Sibbald, W.J., Bion, J.F. (eds) Evaluating Critical Care. Update in Intensive Care Medicine, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56719-3_22

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