Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Mortality prediction using SAPS II: an update for French intensive care units. | Available online http content 9 6 R645 Research Mortality prediction using SAPS II an update for French intensive care units Jean Roger Le Gall1 Anke Neumann2 Frangois Hemery3 Jean Pierre Bleriot4 Jean Pierre Fulgencio5 Bernard Garrigues6 Christian Gouzes7 Eric Lepage8 Pierre Moine9 and Daniel Villers10 Open Access Professor head of the unit of Medical intensive Hôpital Saint Louis Paris France Statistician Delegation à l Information Médicale et Epidémiologie AP-HP Paris France Statistician center of Biostatistique Médicale Hôpital Henri Mondor Créteil France 4Delegate to the Ministère de la Santé Paris France 5Department of Anesthésie Réanimation Hôpital Tenon Paris France 6Professor head of the unit of multidisciplinary internsive care Centre hospitalier du Pays d Aix Aix en Provence France 7Epidemiologist Information Médicale Hôpital de Nimes Nimes France 8Professor Head of the Délégation à l Information Médicale et Epidémiologie AP-HP Paris and of the center of Biostatistique Médicale Hôpital Henri Mondor Créteil France 9Department of Anesthesiology University of Colorado Health Science Center Denver Colorado USA 10Professor Head of the unit of Medical intensive care Hôpital de l Hotel Dieu Nantes France Corresponding author Jean Roger Le Gall Received 2 Jun 2005 Revisions requested 22 Jun 2005 Revisions received 13 Aug 2005 Accepted 8 Sep 2005 Published 6 Oct 2005 Critical Care 2005 9 R645-R652 DOI cc3821 This article is online at http content 9 6 R645 2005 Le Gall et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The standardized mortality ratio SMR is commonly used for benchmarking intensive care units ICUs . Available mortality