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APACHE Score for ICU Mortality


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The APACHE Score for ICU Mortality is a system for measuring severity of illness.1 It is one of several ICU scoring systems.1 After admission to an intensive care unit, a score from 0 to 71 is found based on several measurements.1

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  • APACHE stands for Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II.1
  • Higher scores imply a more severe disease and a higher risk of death.1
  • It was designed to measure the severity of disease for adult patients admitted to Intensive care units.1

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Wikipedia: APACHE II

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  • Last update: Oct. 1, 2008

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