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1982 • 20,275 citations

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1983 • 6,923 citations

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1993 • 6,337 citations

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1993 • 5,263 citations

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1982 • 1,932 citations

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1985 • 1,381 citations

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1993 • 984 citations

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1997 • 955 citations

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1993 • 621 citations

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1993 • 551 citations

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1996 • 401 citations

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1995 • 395 citations

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1995 • 375 citations

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1993 • 290 citations

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1995 • 288 citations

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1986 • 213 citations

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1988 • 207 citations

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1995 • 204 citations

Why Predictive Indexes Perform Less Well in Validation Studies

1987 • 200 citations

Early, routine paralysis for intracranial pressure control in severe head injury

1994 • 193 citations

Daily prognostic estimates for critically ill adults in intensive care units

1994 • 182 citations

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1993 • 164 citations

Rationing of Intensive Care Unit Services

1986 • 157 citations

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1996 • 150 citations

Glasgow Coma Scale score in the evaluation of outcome in the intensive care unit

1993 • 143 citations

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Explaining Variations in Hospital Death Rates

1990 • 134 citations

Intensive Care Unit Admissions With Cirrhosis: Risk–Stratifying Patient Groups and Predicting Individual Survival

1996 • 129 citations

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1997 • 127 citations

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1994 • 122 citations

The performance of SAPS II in a cohort of patients admitted to 99 Italian ICUs: Results from GiViTI

1996 • 122 citations

Scorecard Cardiovascular Medicine: Its Impact and Future Directions

1994 • 118 citations

Evaluating Individual Hospital Quality Through Outcome Statistics

1986 • 116 citations

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1996 • 106 citations

The use of APACHE III to evaluate ICU length of stay, resource use, and mortality after coronary artery by-pass surgery.

1995 • 101 citations

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1996 • 98 citations

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1995 • 97 citations

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1994 • 94 citations

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1995 • 91 citations

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1992 • 88 citations

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1994 • 71 citations

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1992 • 68 citations

Identification of Comatose Patients at High Risk for Death or Severe Disability

1995 • 67 citations

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1996 • 66 citations

Prospective evaluation of residents and nurses as severity score data collectors

1992 • 63 citations

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1991 • 58 citations

Clinical Prediction Rules

1996 • 46 citations

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1994 • 19 citations

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1989 • 17 citations

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