Background We aimed to optimize prediction of long-term all-cause mortality of intensive
care unit (ICU) patients, using quantitative register-based comorbidity information assessed …

Introduction Healthcare-associated pneumonia (HCAP) is a relatively new category of
pneumonia. It refers to infections that occur prior to hospital admission in patients with …

Background Binary classification models are frequently used to predict clinical deterioration,
however they ignore information on the timing of events. An alternative is to apply time-to …

Background Functional status (FS) before intensive care unit (ICU) admission is associated
with short-term and long-term outcomes among critically ill patients. However, measures of …

Background ICU risk assessment tools, routinely used for predicting population outcomes,
are not recommended for evaluating individual risk. The state of health of single patients is …

Introduction The rising prevalence of rapid response teams has led to a demand for risk-
stratification tools that can estimate a ward patient's risk of clinical deterioration and …

Background The present study was performed to investigate the impacts of type 2 diabetes
mellitus (T2DM) on severe community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) and to develop a novel …

Background Scoring systems have been proposed to assist in assessing prognosis, to
compare ICU performance and to stratify patients for clinical trials. Three different models of …

Background There is conflicting evidence on association between quick sequential organ
failure assessment (qSOFA) and sepsis mortality in ICU patients. The primary aim of this …

Background Severity scores are commonly used for outcome adjustment and benchmarking
of trauma care provided. No specific models performed only with critically ill patients are …