The reaper rarely phones ahead: Mortality prediction tools good, not great (Review)
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Doctors are generally lousy at predicting death in terminally ill patients, and in ICU patients with indeterminate outcomes. Mortality prediction models have proliferated to improve our performance, but in the critical care literature, have mostly shown high predictive accuracy only at the tail ends of probability (high probability of survival or death).
The reaper rarely phones ahead: Mortality prediction tools good, not great (Review)
The reaper rarely phones ahead: Mortality…
The reaper rarely phones ahead: Mortality prediction tools good, not great (Review)
Doctors are generally lousy at predicting death in terminally ill patients, and in ICU patients with indeterminate outcomes. Mortality prediction models have proliferated to improve our performance, but in the critical care literature, have mostly shown high predictive accuracy only at the tail ends of probability (high probability of survival or death).
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