Mortality prediction using acute physiology and chronic health evaluation II and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation IV scoring systems: Is there a difference ?

Conclusions: The APACHE II and IV scoring systems have comparable discrimination ability, but the calibration of APACHE IV seems to be better than that of APACHE II. There is a need to recalibrate the scales with weights derived from the Indian population.

Source: Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine - May 17, 2018 Category: Intensive Care Authors: Ramesh Venkataraman Vijayaprasad Gopichandran Lakshmi Ranganathan Senthilkumar Rajagopal Babu K Abraham Nagarajan Ramakrishnan Source Type: research