title: Declining standardized mortality ratios: how we treat or whom we treat?
authors.forename: Andrew A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Quartin
authors.forename: Roland M H
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Schein
mesh_terms: D018806:APACHE; D015982:Bias; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000401:mortality*; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011379:Prognosis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D015996:Survival Rate