%0 Journal Article
%T APACHE II scoring in the injured patient
%J Critical care medicine
%D 1990
%A Rhee, K. J.
%A Baxt, W. G.
%A Mackenzie, J. R.
%A Willits, N. H.
%A Burney, R. E.
%A O'Malley, R. J.
%A Reid, N.
%A Schwabe, D.
%A Storer, D. L.
%A Weber, Rene
%V 18
%N 8
%P 827-830
%X The purpose of this study was to measure the predictive power of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) with respect to mortality in a group of seriously injured patients and to compare this predictive power with that of the Trauma Score (TS) and the Injury Severity Score (ISS). Six hundred ninety-one helicopter-transported patients were studied. Individual logistic regressions demonstrated that all three scores had significant predictive power when considered individually (TS chi 2 = 136, p less than .0001; APACHE II chi 2 = 171, p less than .0001; ISS chi 2 = 109, p less than .0001). In addition, each severity score added significantly to the predictive power in a stepwise logistic regression (TS chi 2 = 15, p less than .0001; APACHE II chi 2 = 45, p less than .0001; ISS chi 2 = 15, p less than .0001). Areas under the receiver operating curves for the three scores were not significantly different (TS 0.8116, SD 0.0245; APACHE II 0.8515, SD 0.0204; ISS 0.7967; SD 0.0223). APACHE II is a good predictor of mortality, and its predictive power is complemented by TS and ISS.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
%@ 0090-3493
%U http://dx.doi.org/