Abstract: A system and method are provided for assessing the degree of critical illness of patients in Intensive Care Units (ICUs), and the detection of occurrence of specific clinical outcomes, pursued through the monitoring of a variety of physiological signals, extraction of multiple measures of variability, and integration of the relevant information the measures of variability bring. The integration process leads to the creation of a compound variable, referred to as a composite measure of variability, which can be tuned to various clinical needs, since the process of normalization, feature selection and data integration are customizable to the clinical indication, planned use of the composite variability monitoring. The system and method also enable joining the composite measure of variability with clinical factors, so as to estimate the likelihood of developing specific clinical outcomes.

Abstract: An identification card intermediate is constructed so that it has a multi-part construction overlying the base stock of the intermediate. The basic web, comprising a transparent plastic substrate with a base stock covering the first side and a release liner covering the second side, is mated with one or more paper webs and carbon sheet webs so that paper and carbon sheets overlie the base stock of the basic web. A glue pattern adjacent one edge of the base stock holds the paper and carbon sheets in place, and a perforation line through the webs allows detachment of the overlying paper and carbon sheets from the base stock.