TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1990//
TI  - APACHE II scoring in the injured patient
JO  - Critical care medicine
A1  - Rhee, K. J.
A1  - Baxt, W. G.
A1  - Mackenzie, J. R.
A1  - Willits, N. H.
A1  - Burney, R. E.
A1  - O'Malley, R. J.
A1  - Reid, N.
A1  - Schwabe, D.
A1  - Storer, D. L.
A1  - Weber, Rene
SP  - 827
EP  - 830
VL  - 18
IS  - 8
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0090-3493
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -