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Article: Research from University of Calgary has provided new information about health services.(Report)
- Article from:
- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- October 19, 2009
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"Risk adjustment and mortality prediction in studies of critical care are usually performed using acuity of illness scores, such as Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II), which emphasize physiological derangement. Common risk adjustment systems used in administrative datasets, like the Charlson index, are entirely based on the presence of comorbid illnesses," scientists writing in the journal BMC Health Services Research report (see also Health Services).
"The purpose of this study was to compare the discriminative ability of the Charlson index to the APACHE II in predicting hospital mortality in adult multisystem ICU patients. This was a ...