This article discusses the Severity of Illness case-mix groups, and suggests a refinement to diagnosis-related groups (DRG's) designed to accommodate the important element of patient severity. An application of the suggested refinement is presented in a discussion of the efficient production of hospital services. The following areas are addressed. A brief summary of the goals and development of...

The focus of most previous research concerning tardive dyskinesia has been on the impact of risk factors on the development( incidence) of this syndrome. In this paper, we report our results on the relationship between risk factors and the severity of tardive dyskinesia. A total of 33 patients diagnosed as tardive dyskinesia with no other medical illness studied: 21 males and 12 females with a ...

background: multiple sclerosis (ms) is a neurological disease with fatigue as most prevalent symptom. psychopathological symptoms, physical and mental dysfunctions and body mass abnormalities potentially could deteriorate fatigue. thus, in this study, we aimed at evaluating the effect of these factors on fatigue severity of ms patients. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 162 patients with ...

Potential predictors of the functional health status of 125 end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients were studied cross-sectionally. When health status was assessed by the physician with the Karnofsky Index, younger patient age, lower ESRD severity of illness, lower comorbidity severity, and higher albumin levels were predictors of better health [R-square = 0.48]. When patients self-reported the...

The Société Française d’Anesthesie et de Réanimation have provided an extremely useful online severity-of-illness calculator, for critically ill and preoperative patients. The site presents about 40 scoring systems in two groups, adult and pediatric, which are subdivided into general and specialized scores. This provides access to a comprehensive directory of severity-of-illness scoring systems...