PIM2
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Purpose | measures severity of medical illness for children |
PIM2 is a scoring system for rating the severity of medical illness for children, one of several
morbidity
of these patients.
Just like APACHE II and SAPS II, it does not provide a real-life predicted mortality. The standard is too old, variations in mortality are huge between countries and departments, and the definition of mortality is varying, too. However, PIM2 provides a good way to benchmark different sets of patients.
References
- Slater A, Shann F, Pearson G, Paediatric Index of Mortality Study Group (2003). "PIM2: a revised version of the Paediatric Index of Mortality". Intensive Care Med. 29 (2): 278–85. S2CID 23477200. this is the first published description of the scoring system