PIM2
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PIM2 is a scoring system for rating the severity of medical illness for children, one of several ICU scoring systems
. Its name stands for "Paediatric Index of Mortality". It has been designed to provide a predicted mortality for a patient by following a well defined procedure. Predicted mortalities are good when dealing with several patients, because the average predicted mortality for a group of patients is an indicator for the morbidity of these patients.
Just like APACHE II
and SAPS II
, it doesn't 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.
ICU scoring systems
-Adult scoring systems:* APACHE II was designed to provide a morbidity score for a patient. It is useful to decide what kind of treatment or medicine is given...
. Its name stands for "Paediatric Index of Mortality". It has been designed to provide a predicted mortality for a patient by following a well defined procedure. Predicted mortalities are good when dealing with several patients, because the average predicted mortality for a group of patients is an indicator for the morbidity of these patients.
Just like APACHE II
APACHE II
APACHE II is a severity-of-disease classification system , one of several ICU scoring systems...
and SAPS II
SAPS II
SAPS II is a severity of disease classification system . Its name stands for "Simplified Acute Physiology Score", and is one of several ICU scoring systems.-Application:...
, it doesn't 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.