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01.04.2008 | Poster presentation
Validation of APACHE IV in patients with severe acute pancreatitis
verfasst von:
P Kakar, D Govil, S Gupta, S Srinivasan, P Mehta, O Prakash, D Arora, S Das, P Govil, A Malhotra, R Tobin, P Bajaj
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Sonderheft 2/2008
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Excerpt
Scoring systems represent classification systems or point systems that have been designed for making quantitative statements regarding the severity of a disease, its prognosis, and its course. These systems are based on physiologic abnormalities and have been successful in measuring severity of illness among critically ill patients. Furthermore, scores may serve the purposes of assessing therapies, of quality control and of quality assurance, and of an economic evaluation of intensive care. We validated the APACHE IV benchmark for a subset of patients with severe acute pancreatitis (SAP). …