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Measuring Treatment Outcomes in Intensive Care: Mortality, Morbidity, and Organ Dysfunction

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Evaluating Critical Care

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care Medicine ((UICMSOFT,volume 35))

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The ability to effect change presupposes an ability to measure, describe, and predict. In the greater world outside the boundaries of the ICU, measurement and behavior are inextricably linked. I change my socks because I have worn them for a day, and carry an umbrella when it threatens to rain. The government changes when a rival party gains more votes than the party in power, and the melange of attitudes that create a culture change through the interplay of the events and perceptions that comprise our daily existence. The ability to measure, and to make a decision based on an awareness of the value of that measure, is fundamental to survival. I fight because my intuitive measurements tell me I am likely to win, and flee when they suggest that victory is improbable.

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  1. Critical Care, University of Toronto, Canada

    William J. Sibbald MD, FRCPC, FCCHSE (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief) (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief)

  2. Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women’s College, Health Sciences Centre, M4N 3M5, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    William J. Sibbald MD, FRCPC, FCCHSE (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief) (Professor of Medicine, Physician-in-Chief)

  3. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, B15 27H, Birmingham, UK

    Julian F. Bion FRCP, FRCA, MD (Reader and Regional Advisor in Intensive Care Medicine) (Reader and Regional Advisor in Intensive Care Medicine)

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Marshall, J.C. (2002). Measuring Treatment Outcomes in Intensive Care: Mortality, Morbidity, and Organ Dysfunction. In: Sibbald, W.J., Bion, J.F. (eds) Evaluating Critical Care. Update in Intensive Care Medicine, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56719-3_6

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