Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
PRISM III score is a good predictor of mortality and it is a good indicator of severity of illness on the day of admission
The paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) scoring system started as a Clinical Classification Scoring System to divide patients for routine ward care from those for intensive care[1,2]
This was followed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System[3] and the Paediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction scoring system[4]
Summary
The paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) scoring system started as a Clinical Classification Scoring System to divide patients for routine ward care from those for intensive care[1,2]. This was followed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System[3] and the Paediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction scoring system[4]. PRISM score was developed from the Physiologic Stability Index[1,6] It utilizes a set of commonly measured predetermined physiological variables and their ranges to quantify status of illness[7]. Paediatric risk mortality III (PRISM III) score is commonly used among paediatric critical care units
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