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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Clin North Am. 2017 Oct;64(5):1147–1165. doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2017.06.011

Figure 1.

Figure 1

The Conceptual Framework for Critical Care Functional Morbidity. The risk of both morbidity and mortality increase as severity of illness (physiological profiles) increases. In this conceptual framework, morbidity is an intermediate outcome on the pathway to mortality.