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The Procedural Index for Mortality Risk (PIMR): an index calculated using administrative data to quantify the independent influence of procedures on risk of hospital death

BACKGROUND: Surgeries and other procedures can influence the risk of death in hospital. All published scales that predict post-operative death risk require clinical data and cannot be measured using administrative data alone. This study derived and internally validated an index that can be calculate...

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Autores principales: van Walraven, Carl, Wong, Jenna, Bennett, Carol, Forster, Alan J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3200180/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21982489
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-258