The risk of mortality (ROM) provides a
medical classification to estimate the
likelihood of inhospital death for a
patient
A patient is any recipient of health care services that are performed by healthcare professionals. The patient is most often ill or injured and in need of treatment by a physician, nurse, optometrist, dentist, veterinarian, or other heal ...
. The ROM classes are minor, moderate, major, and extreme. The ROM class is used for the evaluation of patient
mortality.
See also
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Case mix index
Case mix index (CMI) within health care and medicine, is a relative value assigned to a diagnosis-related group of patients in a medical care environment. The CMI value is used in determining the allocation of resources to care for and/or treat the ...
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Diagnosis codes
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Severity of illness Severity of illness (SOI) is defined as the extent of organ system derangement or physiologic decompensation for a patient. It gives a medical classification into minor, moderate, major, and extreme. The SOI class is meant to provide a basis for ev ...
References
* Alemi, F., J. Rice, and R. Hankins. 1990. "Predicting In-Hospital Survival of Myocardial Infarction." Medical Care 28 (9): 762–75.
* Averill, R. F., J. H. Muldoon, J. C. Vertrees, N. I. Goldfield, R. L. Mullin, E. C. Fineran, M. Z. Zhang, B. Steinbeck, and T. Grant, ''The Evolution of Casemix Measurement Using Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs)'' 3M HIS Working Paper. Wallinford, CT: 3M Health Information Systems, 1997
* Iezzoni, L. I., M. Shwartz, A. S. Ash, J. S. Hughes, J. Daley, and Y. D. Mackiernan, ''Severity Measurement Methods and Judging Hospital Death Rates for Pneumonia'', Medical Care 34 (1): 11–28, 1996
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