The principle of parsimony: Glasgow Coma Scale score predicts mortality as well as the APACHE II score for stroke patients.
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The principle of parsimony: Glasgow Coma Scale score predicts mortality as well as the APACHE II score for stroke patients.
Although the development and use of severity-of-illness measures has gained widespread enthusiasm, uncertainty remains as to the optimal measure for stroke patients. The Health Care Financing Administration recently derived a severity-of-illness measure based on the APACHE II system to explain differences in Medicare mortality rates among hospitals treating stroke patients. We hypothesized that...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.21.9.1280