2002/01/01 by S M Tibby, Shane M. Tibby · 1 citation
Medicine · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment #Emergency and Acute Care Studies #Healthcare Policy and Management
paper · pdf · doi:10.1136/adc.86.1.65-a
Pearson et al should be congratulated on successfully collecting the data required for calculating the PIM Score on 7253 children admitted to 5 UK paediatric intensive care units (PICUs). 1 It is reassuring to note that the authors did not find any systematic differences between these five units in terms of their standardised mortality ratios. Leaving aside the controversies involved in cross country comparisons, it is further pleasing that they appear to conclude that mortality following admission for paediatric intensive care in 1998-99 is less than it was in 1994-95. 2 3 The current results imply that 78 more children have survived following treatment in these 5 PICUs than were predicted by the 1994-95 PIM derivation model.