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 To assess the performance of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) and Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II) in Thai critically ill patients. MATERIAL AND METHOD Prospective observational cohort study conducted between July 1, 2004 and October 31, 2005 in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Songklanagarind Hospital, an 800-beds tertiary referral univers...

BACKGROUND Risk adjustment and mortality prediction in studies of critical care are usually performed using acuity of illness scores, such as Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II), which emphasize physiological derangement. Common risk adjustment systems used in administrative datasets, like the Charlson index, are entirely based on the presence of co-morbid illnesses. T...

Methods This is a prospective cohort study involving severe sepsis patients admitted to ICU Hasan Sadikin General Hospital Bandung Indonesia between period of August 2013 January 2014. Data of type of admission, initial Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score, mortality and length of stay (LOS) in ICU were collected. Severity of illness was measured using Acute Physiology and Chronic H...

BACKGROUND The Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) 3 has recently been developed, but not yet validated in surgical intensive care unit (ICU) patients. We compared the performance of SAPS 3 with SAPS II and the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score in surgical ICU patients. METHODS Prospectively collected data from all patients admitted to a German university h...

Methods To Collect 64 cases with severe sepsis hospitalized in SICU of the First Affiliated hospital of Sun Yat-sen University from December 2012 to December 2013, retrospectively. Monitored the dynamic changes of serum PCT, C-reactive protein(CRP), vital signs, blood routine test on the 1, 3 and 7 day after admission to SICU, the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) sc...

Results. Four hundred and seventy-five patients (11.2%) died in hospital after discharge from the ICU. Increasing age, time in hospital before intensive care admission, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score, and discharge Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS) score were independent risk factors for death after intensive care discharge. Three hundred and ei...

BACKGROUND The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) score is used to determine disease severity and predict outcomes in critically ill patients. However, the prognostic significance of APACHE after acute paraquat (PQ) poisoning remains unclear. The meta-analysis was aimed to study the value of APACHE II in predicting mortality in PQ-exposed Chinese and Korean patients. ...

This study assessed the ability of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) and Acute Physiology, Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II scoring systems, as well as the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II method to predict group mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients who were poisoned with organophosphate. The medical records of 149 organophosphate poisoned patients admitt...