Gastrointestinal failure score in critically ill patients
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* Corresponding author: Mette M Berger Mette.Berger@chuv.ch
Department of Adult Intensive Care Medicine and Burns Center, University Hospital (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois), CHUV BH-08.660, Rue du Bugnon 46, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Critical Care 2008, 12:436 doi:10.1186/cc7120
Published: 4 December 2008First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Reintam and colleagues recently proposed for the first time a score of gastrointestinal failure (GIF) [1], and confirmed its association with poor outcome. The authors should be congratulated for their attempt, and for the combination with the already existing well-validated Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score [2].