SAPS 3, APACHE IV or GRACE: which score to choose for acute coronary syndrome patients in intensive care units?
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SAPS 3, APACHE IV or GRACE: which score to choose for acute coronary syndrome patients in intensive care units?
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) are a common cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission. Specific prognostic scores have been developed and validated for ACS patients and, among them, GRACE (Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events) has had the best performance. However, intensive care clinicians generally use prognostic scores developed from heterogeneous populations of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sao Paulo Medical Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1516-3180
DOI: 10.1590/1516-3180.2013.1313474