Predicting mortality after intracerebral hemorrhage: comparison of scoring systems and influence of withdrawal of care.

Objective: The Broderick system and the intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) score are two systems for predicting 30-day mortality in patients with spontaneous ICH. No previous study has compared two ICH scoring systems in an independent patient cohort. Our purpose was to externally validate and directly compare these two systems and evaluate the effect of withdrawal of care on system performance.

The effect of body mass index on patient outcomes in a medical ICU.

Study Objectives: To examine the effect of patient body mass index (BMI) on outcome in intensive care.

Design: In a prospective study, the patients were classified into groups based on the calculated BMI, as follows: BMI < 19.0 (n = 350), > or = 19.