Open AccessApplying Ockham??s Razor to Pancreatitis Prognostication
Author(s) -
Austin L. Spitzer,
Anthony M. Barcia,
Michael T. Schell,
Annabel Barber,
James Norman,
James H. Grendell,
Hobart W. Harris
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/01.sla.0000202213.22389.36
Subject(s) - medicine , acute pancreatitis , receiver operating characteristic , pancreatitis , apache ii , severity of illness , scoring system , intensive care medicine , gastroenterology , intensive care unit
We sought to develop a simple yet accurate prognostic scoring system to determine the severity of acute pancreatitis at admission.