Mortality Variations and Illness Severity (SNAP-II) in Canadian NICUs

Abstract 1460 Poster Session III, Monday, 5/3 (poster 62)

BACKGROUND: SNAP-II is a parsimonious (6-item) physiologic measure of illness severity which has not been previously used to assess NICU mortality. Since variations in NICU mortality among Canadian NICUs has not been previously described, we used SNAP-II to model and assess mortality variations among 17 NICUs (80% of NICU beds in Canada) in the Canadian NICU Network.

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