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SUBMITTER: Hager DN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7263171 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hager David N DN Tanykonda Varshitha V Noorain Zeba Z Sahetya Sarina K SK Simpson Catherine E CE Lucena Juan Felipe JF Needham Dale M DM
Journal of critical care 20180519
<h4>Purpose</h4>The Intermediate Care Unit Severity Score (IMCUSS) is an easy to calculate predictor of in-hospital death, and the only such tool developed for patients in the intermediate care setting. We sought to examine its external validity.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>Using data from patients admitted to the intermediate care unit (IMCU) of an urban academic medical center from July to December of 2012, model discrimination and calibration for predicting in-hospital death were assessed us ...[more]