A STUDY OF ACUTE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND CHRONIC HEALTH EVALUATION (APACHE) INDEX IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS.

Dr Rahul Nair

Abstract


This study aims at (1) validating the use of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) scoring system in the medical intensive care unit ( MICU) for  prediction of  the risk for mortality, (2) to compare the predicted death rate with the observed death rate of the patients gender wise and age wise.

 


Keywords


APACHE II score, discrimination, intensive care unit, mortality rate, prognosis.

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