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From: Derivation and performance of an end-of-life practice score aimed at interpreting worldwide treatment-limiting decisions in the critically ill

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Flowchart of the employed analytic methodology. ICU, intensive care unit; GEE, generalized estimating equations; EPV, end-of-life practice variable; ROC receiver operating characteristic, EPS end-of-life practice score, CPR cardiopulmonary resuscitation. *The weighted EPS was determined by first multiplying the comparison study’s [4] GEE-derived EPV coefficients by the 0 or 1 response grades of the 12 EPVs from the worldwide dataset [5], and then by summing up the aforementioned products. †The EPS rescaling formula is presented in Table 1. ‡The original, unweighted EPS was calculated as the sum of the 0 or 1 response grades of the 12 EPVs from the worldwide dataset [5]; author consensus definitions of the EPVs are provided in Table 1

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Critical Care

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