The authors of a recent paper have described an updated simplified acute physiology score (SAPS) II mortality model developed on patient data from 1998 to 1999. Hospital mortality models have a limited range of applicability. SAPS II, Acute Physiology, Age, and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III, and mortality probability model (MPM)-II, which were developed in the early 1990s, have shown a...

OBJECTIVE To compare the Acute Physiology, Age and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III with the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS II) in discriminating in-hospital mortality for intensive care unit (ICU) patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). DESIGN Prospective, observational, multicenter study. SETTING 70 Spanish ICUs. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS 1711 patients with AMI a...

Objective: Tracheostomy is a bedside surgical procedure that frequently performed in intensive care units. It allows patients who need long-term mechanical ventilator to be transferred from through home-type ventilator. In this study, we aimed evaluate the relationship between serum albumin levels before hospitalization and discharge or exitus mortality were palliative service with home type by...

This article addresses the criteria for severity assessment and the severity scoring system of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan; now the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (the JPN score). It also presents data comparing the JPN score with the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score and the Ranson score, which are the major measuring scales used...

Abstract Background Neutrophil-lymphocyte count ratio (NLCR) has been reported as better indicator of bacteremia than procalcitonin (PCT), and more precise predictor mortality C-reactive protein (CRP) under various medical conditions. However, large controversy remains upon this topic. To address the discrepancy, our group compared efficiency NLCR with conventional inflammatory markers in predi...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to assess the contribution of training in data definitions and data extraction guidelines to improving quality of data for use in intensive care scoring systems such as the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II and Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II in the Dutch National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) registry. METHODS Before and after at...

Methods The study was designed as a prospective cohort study for patients admitted to the nine intensive care units in the four provincial academic medical centers from September 2013 to February 2014. Validation and comparison were conducted to measure discrimination and calibration with using the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) and the Hosmer-Lemeshow test, respec...

Objective To determinate the prognostic value of procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) changes during first two days admission to ICU with sepsis and/or septic shock, compare it in Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE-II) Sepsis-related Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) scores. Methods A single-center prospective observational study was performed. Fifty consecutive...