Why the study?
Does the Simplified Mortality Score for the Intensive Care Unit (SMS-ICU) accurately predict 90-day mortality in ICU patients?
Population
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
90 days
Authors
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Supports SMS-ICU for ICU mortality prediction; leaves open external validation before clinical adoption.
Does the Simplified Mortality Score for the Intensive Care Unit (SMS-ICU) accurately predict 90-day mortality in ICU patients?
The SMS-ICU is a simple tool that predicts 90-day mortality in ICU patients with reasonable performance, though external validation is required.
Granholm et al. (2017) studied this question.
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