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sofa: SOFA (Sequential Organ Failure Assessment) Data

Description

A dataset containing the SOFA scores (Vincent et al, 1996). for 520 patients, hospitalized in the intensive care unit (ICU) with Acute Lung Inury. Daily measurements are available for as long as each one remains in the ICU. This is an example of variable-domain functional data, as described by Gellar et al. (2014).

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Details

The data was collected as part of the Improving Care of ALI Patients (ICAP) study (Needham et al., 2006). If you use this dataset as an example in written work, please cite the study protocol.

References

Vincent, JL, Moreno, R, Takala, J, Willatts, S, De Mendonca, A, Bruining, H, Reinhart, CK, Suter, PM, Thijs, LG (1996). The SOFA ( Sepsis related Organ Failure Assessment) score to describe organ dysfunction/failure. Intensive Care Medicine, 22(7): 707-710. Needham, D. M., Dennison, C. R., Dowdy, D. W., Mendez-Tellez, P. A., Ciesla, N., Desai, S. V., Sevransky, J., Shanholtz, C., Scharfstein, D., Herridge, M. S., and Pronovost, P. J. (2006). Study protocol: The Improving Care of Acute Lung Injury Patients (ICAP) study. Critical Care (London, England), 10(1), R9. Gellar, Jonathan E., Elizabeth Colantuoni, Dale M. Needham, and Ciprian M. Crainiceanu. Variable-Domain Functional Regression for Modeling ICU Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 109(508):1425-1439, 2014.