Objective To compare the predictive validity of three pressure ulcer risk scales: the Braden scale; the Song and Choi scale; and the Cubbin and Jackson scale and to choose the most appropriate calculator for predicting pressure ulcer risk in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) in South Korea. Design Non‐experimental prospective study. Setting A 1,053 bed tertiary educational hospital in Sou...

BACKGROUND Assessments of risk for pressure ulcers in critical care patients may not include important predictors. OBJECTIVE To construct risk-prediction models of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers in intensive care patients and compare the models' predictive validities with validity of the Braden Scale. METHODS Data were collected retrospectively on patients admitted to intensive care from...

results the command is addpred for logistic regression models. conclusions the stata package provided herein can encourage the use of novel methods in examining predictive capacity of ever-emerging plethora of novel biomarkers. materials and methods we have written a stata command that is intended to help researchers obtain cut point-free and cut point-based net reclassification improvement ind...

The design of neural networks (NNs) is presented for treating large, linear model predictive control (MPC) applications that are out reach with available quadratic programming (QP) solvers. First, we introduce a new feedforward network architecture enables practitioners to obtain offset-free closed-loop performance NNs. Second, discuss the data generation procedure sample state space relevant t...