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An Evaluation of the Influence of Body Mass Index on Severity Scoring*

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2018

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Rodrigo Octávio Deliberato, Ary Serpa Neto, Matthieu Komorowski, David J. Stone, Stephanie Q Ko, Lucas Bulgarelli, Carolina Rodrigues Ponzoni, Renato Carneiro de Freitas Chaves, Leo Anthony Celi, Alistair E. W. Johnson
Critical Care Medicine

Abstract

The performance of ICU prognostic models utilizing body mass index category as a scoring element was inconsistent across body mass index categories. Overall, adding body mass index as a risk adjustment variable led only to a minor improvement in scoring system performance.

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