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An Experimental Paradigm for the Prediction of Post-Operative Pain (PPOP)
Published on: January 27, 2010
Therapy of critically ill postoperative patients based on outcome prediction and prospective clinical trials
The Surgical Clinics of North America
|August 1, 1985
Abstract:
An objective physiologic approach to therapy of high-risk postoperative patients was developed using survival as the criterion to determine the relative importance of variables and optimal goals for these variables. A protocol, based on a branch chain decision tree, also was developed from outcome data. When tested prospectively against the standard of care, this protocol markedly reduced mortality and morbidity.
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