Don’t let perfection be the enemy of the good: it’s time for optimism over the role of severity scoring systems in intensive care unit performance measurement

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*Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre, London, UK; †Critical Care Medicine Division, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine and Center for Research on Health Care, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Correspondence to Derek C. Angus, MD, MPH, Room 604 Scaife Hall, Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; e-mail: [email protected]