The risk of mortality (ROM) provides a

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to estimate the

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of in-hospital death for a

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. The ROM classes are minor, moderate, major, and extreme. The ROM class is used for the evaluation of patient mortality.

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 Medical terminology Medical manuals Diagnosis codes Medical scales {{med-stub

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