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Progress in Scoring Systems, Safety and Quality of Care in the ICU

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Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.

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Abstract

Probability models derived from scoring systems are used to evaluate the performance of ICUs [1–5]. The comparison of observed versus expected mortality or standard mortality ratio (SMR) is said to be reproducible and related to the efficacy of the units.

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  1. Dept. of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France

    J.-R. Le Gall & C. Alberti

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  1. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Trieste University School of Medicine, Trieste, Italy

    Antonino Gullo M.D. (Head) (Head)

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Le Gall, JR., Alberti, C. (1999). Progress in Scoring Systems, Safety and Quality of Care in the ICU. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2145-7_9

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