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: SOFA is superior to MOD score for the determination of non-neurologic organ dysfunction in patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a cohort study. | Available online http content 10 4 R115 Research SOFA is superior to MOD score for the determination of non-neurologic organ dysfunction in patients with severe traumatic brain injury a cohort study David Zygun1 2 3 Luc Berthiaume1 4 Kevin Laupland1 3 4 John Kortbeek1 5 and Christopher Doig1 3 4 Department of Critical Care Medicine University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada 2Department of Clinical Neuroscience University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada 3Department of Medicine University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada 4Department of Community Health Sciences University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada 5Department of Surgery University of Calgary Calgary Alberta Canada Corresponding author David Zygun Received 29 May 2006 Revisions requested 29 Jun 2006 Revisions received 19 Jul 2006 Accepted 1 Aug 2006 Published 1 Aug 2006 Critical Care 2006 10 R115 doi cc5007 This article is online at http content 10 4 R115 2006 Zygun 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. Open Access Abstract Introduction The objective of the present study was to compare the discriminative ability of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment SOFA and Multiple Organ Dysfunction MOD scoring systems with respect to hospital mortality and unfavorable neurologic outcome in patients with severe traumatic brain injury admitted to the intensive care unit. Method We performed a prospective cohort study at Foothills Medical Centre the sole adult tertiary care trauma center servicing southern Alberta population about million . All patients aged 16 years or older with severe traumatic brain injury and intensive care unit length of stay greater than 48 hours between 1 May 2000
