One year mortality in patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation: multicenter evaluation of the ProVent score. Critical Care 2014, 18:R155.
Leroy, G., et al.
http://ccforum.com/content/18/4/R155
Current severity-of-illness indexes are unable to assess the long-term prognosis of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation. A prognostic scoring system (Prognosis for Prolonged Ventilation score - ProVent - score) seems able to evaluate one-year mortality of such patients. However, testing of the model outside the developers' centers has not been reported. So, it is unclear how the ProVent score performs in non-US and non-tertiary ICUs. The goal of our study was to evaluate its performances in a French multicenter, community hospital-based setting.
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