Paediatric index of mortality (PIM): a mortality prediction model for children in intensive care
Intensive Care MedicinePublished 1 February 1997
Frank Shann, Gale Pearson, Anthony Slater, K. Wilkinson
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Scores that use the worst value of their predictor variables in the first 12–24 h should not be used to compare different units: patients mismanaged in a bad unit will have higher scores than similar patients managed in a good unit, and the bad unit’s high mortality rate will be incorrectly attributed to its having sicker patients.
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Scores that use the worst value of their predictor variables in the first 12-24 h should not be used to compare different units: patients mismanaged in a bad unit will have higher scores than similar patients managed in a good unit, and the bad unit's high mortality rate will be incorrectly attributed to its having sicker patients. PIM is a simple model that is based on only eight explanatory variables collected at the time of admission to intensive care. It is accurate enough to be used to describe the risk of mortality in groups of children.
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