In this task, the use of discharge diagnosis instead of admission diagnosis could be misleading since it may reflect patient severity at some time beyond the time of randomization, rather than the time at which the treatment was initiated. Keywords: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; benchmarking; critical care; prediction models; quality of care EN Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation benchmarking critical care prediction models quality of care 687 689 3 03/28/22 20220401 NES 220401 SP 1 sp Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada SP 2 sp Department of Critical Care Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada SP 3 sp Kingston Health Sciences Centre, Kingston, ON, Canada SP 4 sp National Evaluation System for health Technology Coordinating Center, Medical Device Innovation Consortium, Arlington, VA SP 5 sp Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, MD SP 6 sp Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA *See also p. 543. These complications can have a profound impact on a patient's course of illness and may influence the discharge diagnosis. [Extracted from the article]