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Common intensive care scoring systems do not outperform age and glasgow coma scale score in predicting mid-term mortality in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage treated in the intensive care unit

Marika Fallenius; Markus B. Skrifvars; Matti Reinikainen; Stepani Bendel; Rahul Raj · 2017 · Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Intensive care scoring systems are widely used in intensive care units (ICU) around the world for case-mix adjustment in research and benchmarking. The aim of our study was to investigate the usefulness of common intensive care scoring systems in predicting mid-term mortality in patients with spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) treated in intensive care units (ICU). METHODS: We performed a retrospective observational study including adult patients with spontaneous ICH treated in Finnish ICUs during 2003-2012. We used six-month mortality as the primary outcome of interest. We

Abstract by Marika Fallenius; Markus B. Skrifvars; Matti Reinikainen; Stepani Bendel; Rahul Raj, Scandinavian Journal of Trauma Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (2017) — licensed CC BY 4.0.

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