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David A Harrison; Paloma Ferrando-Vivas; Jason Shahin; Kathryn M Rowan

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Harrison DA, Ferrando-Vivas P, Shahin J, et al. Ensuring comparisons of health-care providers are fair: development and validation of risk prediction models for critically ill patients. Southampton (UK): NIHR Journals Library; 2015 Oct. (Health Services and Delivery Research, No. 3.41.)

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AIC: Akaike information criterion
APACHE: Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation
AQR: Annual Quality Report
BIC: Bayesian information criterion
BMI: body mass index
CASUS: Cardiac Surgery Score
CI: confidence interval
CMP: Case Mix Programme
CPR: cardiopulmonary resuscitation
CQC: Care Quality Commission
DBP: diastolic blood pressure
DNACPR: Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
FCS: fully conditional specification
FiO₂: fraction of inspired oxygen
GCS: Glasgow Coma Scale
GWTG-R: Get With The Guidelines^®-Resuscitation
HES: Hospital Episode Statistics
ICNARC: Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre
JAV: just another variable
MAR: missing at random
MCAR: missing completely at random
MPM: Mortality Probability Model
NCAA: National Cardiac Arrest Audit
NRI: net reclassification improvement
PaCO₂: arterial carbon dioxide pressure
PaO₂: arterial oxygen pressure
POCAS: Post Cardiac Surgery
QQR: Quarterly Quality Report
ROSC: return of spontaneous circulation
SAPS: Simplified Acute Physiology Score
SBP: systolic blood pressure
SICSAG: Scottish Intensive Care Society Audit Group
SMC-FCS: substantive model compatible fully conditional specification
SMR: standardised mortality ratio
SOFA: Sequential Organ Failure Assessment
WBC: white blood cell

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