Short-Rerm Mortality Predictions for Critically Ill Hospitalized Adults: Science and Ethics

The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

1982 • 20,275 citations

APACHE II-A Severity of Disease Classification System

1986 • 12,607 citations

APACHE II

1985 • 12,347 citations

Multifactorial Index of Cardiac Risk in Noncardiac Surgical Procedures

1977 • 2,734 citations

Clinical Versus Actuarial Judgment

1989 • 2,262 citations

Estimating the Error Rate of a Prediction Rule: Improvement on Cross-Validation

1983 • 2,096 citations

Regression modelling strategies for improved prognostic prediction

1984 • 1,693 citations

Gram-Negative Bacteremia

1962 • 1,375 citations

Statistical Data Analysis in the Computer Age

1991 • 1,190 citations

Medical Futility: Its Meaning and Ethical Implications

1990 • 1,172 citations

Excess Mortality in Harlem

1990 • 630 citations

Physiologic Patterns in Surviving and Nonsurviving Shock Patients

1973 • 403 citations

RATES OF VENOUS THROMBOSIS AFTER GENERAL SURGERY: COMBINED RESULTS OF RANDOMISED CLINICAL TRIALS

1986 • 295 citations

Statistical and Knowledge-Based Approaches to Clinical Decision-Support Systems, with an Application in Gastroenterology

1984 • 277 citations

How Medical Professionals Evaluate Expressions of Probability

1986 • 276 citations

Anatomy of a Decision

1990 • 261 citations

Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying

1988 • 252 citations

Comparison of Clinical Assessment With APACHE II for Predicting Mortality Risk in Patients Admitted to a Medical Intensive Care Unit

1988 • 242 citations

Discrepancy between Medical Decisions for Individual Patients and for Groups

1990 • 239 citations

Rationing of intensive care unit services. An everyday occurrence

1986 • 213 citations

Cost without Benefit

1986 • 206 citations

Accurate Prediction of the Outcome of Pediatric Intensive Care

1987 • 181 citations

Predicting outcome among intensive care unit patients using computerised trend analysis of daily Apache II scores corrected for organ system failure

1988 • 173 citations

Health care technology and the inevitability of resource allocation and rationing decisions. Part I.

1983 • 168 citations

Rationing of Intensive Care Unit Services

1986 • 157 citations

The Use and Implications of Do Not Resuscitate Orders in Intensive Care Units

1986 • 156 citations

How Well Can Physicians Estimate Mortality in a Medical Intensive Care Unit?

1989 • 141 citations

Rationing Health Care: The Choice Before Us

1990 • 132 citations

Dealing with Uncertainty, Risks, and Tradeoffs in Clinical Decisions

1988 • 132 citations

Frequency and Clinical Description of High-Cost Patients in 17 Acute-Care Hospitals

1979 • 110 citations

Utilization Strategies for Intensive Care Units

1989 • 103 citations

Intensive care units, scarce resources, and conflicting principles of justice

1986 • 98 citations

An Additional Basic Science for Clinical Medicine: I. The Constraining Fundamental Paradigms

1983 • 96 citations

Predicting Patient Outcome from Intensive Care: A Guide to APACHE, MPM, SAPS, PRISM, and Other Prognostic Scoring Systems

1990 • 79 citations

Physiologic Abnormalities and Outcome From Acute Disease

1986 • 77 citations

Health Care Technology and the Inevitability of Resource Allocation and Rationing Decisions

1983 • 77 citations

Improving the Medical Decisionmaking Process

1988 • 67 citations

Health Care Technology and the Inevitability of Resource Allocation and Rationing Decisions

1983 • 63 citations

The value of measuring severity of disease in clinical research on acutely ill patients

1984 • 62 citations

Predicting the Outcome of Intensive Care Unit Patients

1988 • 61 citations

Accumulative Prognostic Index for Patients with Barbiturate, Glutethimide and Meprobamate Intoxication

1971 • 59 citations

Providers as predictors

1986 • 57 citations

Relationship between acute physiologic derangement and risk of death

1985 • 49 citations

Outcomes of surgery under Medicaid.

1990 • 40 citations

The Effect on Survival of Critically Ill and Injured Patients of an ICU Teaching Service Organized About a Computer-based Physiologic CARE System

1980 • 39 citations

Developing principles for prudent health care allocation. The continuing Oregon experiment.

1990 • 25 citations

Changes in distribution of Medicare expenditures among aged enrollees, 1969-82.

1986 • 24 citations

What Difference Do Two Days Make? The Inertia of Physicians' Sequential Prognostic Judgments for Critically III Patients

1990 • 22 citations

Statistical methods in support

1990 • 11 citations