SwissScoring: a nationwide survey about SAPS II assessing accuracy

AccucheckInform II: About Its Accuracy and Precision

Performance of SAPS II and SAPS 3 in Intermediate Care

OBJECTIVE The efficacy and reliability of prognostic scores has been described extensively for intensive care, but their role for predicting mortality in intermediate care patients is uncertain. To provide more information in this field, we have analyzed the performance of the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II and SAPS 3 in a single center intermediate care unit (ImCU). MATERIALS AN...

accucheckinform ii: about its accuracy and precision

Assessing predictions of violence: being accurate about accuracy.

The prediction of violence occupies a prominent and controversial place in public mental health practice. Productive debate about the validity of violence predictions has been hampered by the use of methods for quantifying accuracy that do not control for base rates or biases in favor of certain outcomes. This article describes these problems and shows how receiver-operating characteristic anal...

Assessing Depression among Older Persons with Arthritis: A Nationwide Health Status Survey

Objectives. This study aimed to assess the health status of a nationwide sample of elderly persons having arthritis and determine the prevalence of depressive symptomatology in this population. Methods. WebTV technology was utilized to administer health status and depression surveys to a nationally representative sample of 550 randomly selected older persons. Predetermined cutoff scores on Shor...