2014-06-11
Monitoring prognosis in severe traumatic brain injury
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Critical Care , Volume 18 - Issue 3
The choice of disease-specific versus generic scales is common to many fields of medicine. In the area of traumatic brain injury, evidence is coming forward that disease-specific prognostic models and disease-specific scoring systems are preferable in the intensive care setting. In monitoring prognosis, the use of a calibration belt in validation studies potentially provides accurate and intuitively attractive insight into performance. This approach deserves further empirical evaluation of its added value as well as its limitations.
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doi.org/10.1186/cc13915, hdl.handle.net/1765/59315 | |
Critical Care | |
Organisation | Erasmus MC: University Medical Center Rotterdam |
Maas, A., & Steyerberg, E. (2014). Monitoring prognosis in severe traumatic brain injury. Critical Care (Vol. 18). doi:10.1186/cc13915 |