Severity-of-illness systems. An overview for medical directors--Part two.
In Part One of this article in the March-April 1990 issue of Physician Executive, the authors explored severity-of-illness systems that relied on administrative data for their formulation. In the second part of the article, the authors deal with systems that use clinical and/or physiologic data as their basis.
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Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, IL.
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D015510:Clinical Medicine; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012984:Software; D014481:United States; D014600:Utilization Review / Q000379:methods*