The goal is to develop "severity measures within each diagnosis," said Dr. Darrel A. Regier, research director at the American Psychiatric Association and vice chairman of the diagnostic manual's task force.
The newly developed severity index for inpatients using procedure records predicted in-hospital death well.
10– 12 This is underlined by the increasing weight ascribed to comorbidity in the most recent developed severity-of-illness models, such as the SAPS III model.
Thus, in certain patients presenting with conditions placing them in a high-risk category, clinical suspicion, advanced preparation and timing of operation may decrease the severity of a developing event.
First, for children at age two, Devulapalli et al. [ 104] in 2008 conducted a case control study and developed a severity score to predict asthma development at age 10.
This study proposes a method for developing a stroke severity index (SSI) by using administrative data.
The only other study that attempted to develop a severity model also used a patient-reported outcome, global VAS, as the anchor for FM severity [ 20].
Moreover, most of previous studies ignored the impact of geometric features on crash types when developing crash severity models.
See related research by Sato et al. in this issue In the present issue of Arthritis Research and Therapy, Sato and colleagues report on their effort to determine the convergent validity of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Medical Record-Based Index of Severity (RARBIS), a newly developed measure of severity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) [ 1].
This commentary discusses recent attempts to develop useful severity criteria to guide the use of ICU resources in patients with severe CAP.
We developed the severity index for inpatients using the derivation cohort, and tested its performance in the validation cohort.
