Open AccessA multicenter mortality prediction model for patients receiving prolonged mechanical ventilation*
Author(s) -
Shan S. Carson,
Jeremy M. Kahn,
Catherine L. Hough,
E. Scott Seeley,
Douglas B. White,
Ivor S. Douglas,
Christopher E. Cox,
Ellen Caldwell,
Shrikant I. Bangdiwala,
Joanne M. Garrett,
Gordon D. Rubenfeld
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.002
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1530-0293
pISSN - 0090-3493
DOI - 10.1097/ccm.0b013e3182387d43
Subject(s) - medicine , mechanical ventilation , logistic regression , receiver operating characteristic , confidence interval , goodness of fit , mortality rate , area under the curve , hemodialysis , statistics , emergency medicine , mathematics
Significant deficiencies exist in the communication of prognosis for patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation after acute illness, in part because of clinician uncertainty about long-term outcomes. We sought to refine a mortality prediction model for patients requiring prolonged ventilation using a multicentered study design.