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Are we ready for an ICU Scoring System? The APACHE IV score

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Title: Are we ready for an ICU Scoring System? The APACHE IV score

Authors: Murtaza Mohammed Kazmi, Nawal Salahuddin

Journal: Pakistan journal of chest medicine (Online)

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Year: 2011

Volume: 17

Issue: 1

Language: en

Keywords: ICUAPACHE IVSeverity Illness.

Categories
Intensive Care Units (8) Severity Scoring (2) APACHE IV (2) Medical Diagnostics (164) Critical Care (2112)

Abstract

General ICU scoring systems are used to assess severity of illness at admissionand use it to predict outcomes. They are useful in determining allocation ofresources, characterization of disease severity and organ dysfunction, forcomparing units and in ICU research.

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