Background: Stroke is the third major cause of death worldwide, and physicians are required to predict the outcome, as early as possible. Objective: Study the prognostic value of routine some simple blood parameters and APACHE III scoring system (Acute Physiology, Age, and Chronic Health Evaluation), on the first month fatality in patients of first-time acute stroke. Methods: Ninety-three strok...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how patients with bacteremic sepsis are managed in a tertiary care teaching hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS Prospective observational study on patients with bacteremic sepsis. Clinical and microbiological characteristics of bacteremic sepsis were analyzed in relation to prognosis. Severity of the illness was quantitatively analyzed by the APACHE (Acute Physiology, Age,...

OBJECTIVES There are scarce data from India validating scoring systems used to predict outcome in patients requiring mechanical ventilation. This study prospectively compared the organ system failure (OSF), the acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) II, and the APACHE III, scores on patients requiring mechanical ventilation in the medical intensive care unit, to predict outcome...

Aim To verify and compare the accuracies of mortality predictions in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Internal Clinic of Central Military Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, using model APACHE II and the newer systems of the APACHE IV, SAPS 3 and MPMo III. Methods The data were collected retrospectively between 2011 and 2012, 1000 patients were evaluated. The assessment of the overall accur...

OBJECTIVE To improve the accuracy of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) method for predicting hospital mortality among critically ill adults and to evaluate changes in the accuracy of earlier APACHE models. DESIGN : Observational cohort study. SETTING A total of 104 intensive care units (ICUs) in 45 U.S. hospitals. PATIENTS A total of 131,618 consecutive ICU admis...

INTRODUCTION More than 50 scoring systems have been published for classification of trauma patients in the field, emergency room, and intensive care settings, so far. The present study aimed to compare the ability of trauma injury severity score (TRISS) and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) III in predicting mortality of intensive care unit (ICU) admitted trauma patients. ...

PURPOSE This study compared the performance of 3 admission prognostic scores in predicting hospital mortality. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patient admission characteristics and hospital outcome of 9549 patients were recorded prospectively. The discrimination and calibration of the predicted risks of death derived from the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS III), Admission Mortality Prediction ...

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