Reliability of a measure of severity of illness: acute physiology of chronic health evaluation--II.

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Published in J Clin Epidemiol on February 01, 1992

Authors

A M Damiano1, M Bergner, E A Draper, W A Knaus, D P Wagner

Author Affiliations

1: Health Services Research and Development Center, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205.

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