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ArticleCritical care science2025

The case for an international severity of illness scoring system.

Alexander Tracy, Jorge Ibrain Figueira Salluh, Eirik Alnes Buanes, Dave A Dongelmans, Stefano Finazzi, Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi Vijayaraghavan, Nazir Lone, David Pilcher, Matti Reinikainen, Menbeu Sultan and 4 more

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Article in Critical care science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Evaluation of the SMS-ICU score for multicontinental use: A federated external validation study using critical care registry data.Critical care and resuscitation : journal of the Australasian Academy of Critical Care Medicine · 2026
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  2. Physician-led interprofessional pre-hospital teams: does the science hold up?Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Alexander TracyNuffield Department of Anaesthesia, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust - Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4109-3568
Jorge Ibrain Figueira SalluhDepartment of Critical Care, Instituto D'Or de Pesquisa e Ensino - Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8164-1453
Eirik Alnes BuanesDepartment of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Haukeland University Hospital - Bergen, Norway.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1295-6734
Dave A DongelmansDepartment of Intensive Care Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam, The Netherlands.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8477-6671
Stefano FinazziLaboratory of Clinical Data Science, Department of Medical Epidemiology, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research IRCCS - Lombardia, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3525-3249
Bharath Kumar Tirupakuzhi VijayaraghavanDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Apollo Hospitals - Chennai, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1801-0667
Nazir LoneUsher Institute, University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2707-2779
David PilcherDepartment of Intensive Care, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC 3004 - Melbourne, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8939-7985
Matti ReinikainenDepartment of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Kuopio University Hospital - Kuopio, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6878-3740
Menbeu SultanSt. Paul's Hospital Millenium Medical College - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5730-9354
David ThomsonDivision of Critical Care, Department of Anaesthesia and Peri-operative Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town - Western Cape, South Africa.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2433-3611
Wangari Waweru-SiikaDepartment of Anaesthesia, Aga Khan University - Nairobi, Kenya.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3045-3372
Rashan HaniffaCentre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8288-449X
Abigail BeaneCentre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh - Edinburgh, United Kingdom.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7046-1580

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID40105516
PMCPMC11975272

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