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Research Notes on APACHE Score for ICU Mortality
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
Fast Facts:
- 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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- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
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- Last update: Nov. 6, 2009
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- Contributor: Janet
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: APACHE 2, Acute physiology and chronic health evaluation 2, ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY AND CHRONIC HEALTH EVALUATION II, APACHE SCORE FOR ICU MOTALITY, APACHE II
- Last update: Sep. 29, 2008
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.