SAPS 3--From evaluation of the patient to evaluation of the intensive care unit. Part 1: Objectives, methods and cohort description.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Risk adjustment systems now in use were developed more than a decade ago and lack prognostic performance. Objective of the SAPS 3 study was to collect data about risk factors and outcomes in a heterogeneous cohort of intensive care unit (ICU) patients, in order to develop a new, improved model for risk adjustment.

Design

Prospective multicentre, multinational cohort study.

Patients and setting

A total of 19,577 patients consecutively admitted to 307 ICUs from 14 October to 15 December 2002.

Measurements and results

Data were collected at ICU admission, on days 1, 2 and 3, and the last day of the ICU stay. Data included sociodemographics, chronic conditions, diagnostic information, physiological derangement at ICU admission, number and severity of orga

SUBMITTER: Metnitz PG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1315314 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature