Letter Gastrointestinal failure score in critically ill patientsDepartment 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, 12:436doi:10.1186/cc7120
See related research by Reintam et al., http://ccforum.com/content/12/4/R90, related commentary by Khadaroo and Marshall, http://ccforum.com/content/12/5/180 and related correction by Reintam et al., http://ccforum.com/content/12/6/435 First 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]. |




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