SAPS 3--From evaluation of the patient to evaluation of the intensive care unit. Part 2: Development of a prognostic model for hospital mortality at ICU admission.

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Published in Intensive Care Med on August 17, 2005

Authors

Rui P Moreno1, Philipp G H Metnitz, Eduardo Almeida, Barbara Jordan, Peter Bauer, Ricardo Abizanda Campos, Gaetano Iapichino, David Edbrooke, Maurizia Capuzzo, Jean-Roger Le Gall, SAPS 3 Investigators

Author Affiliations

1: Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente, Hospital de St. António dos Capuchos, Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa (Zona Central), Lisbon, Portugal. r.moreno@mail.telepac.pt

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