Comparison of Outcome From Intensive Care Admission After Adjustment for Case Mix by the APACHE III Prognostic System
CHEST JournalPublished 1 March 1999
John Pappachan, Brian Millar, Ed Bennett, Gary B. Smith
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The excess mortality observed after case-mix adjustment using the APACHE III system in this study may be the result of either poor intensive care performance as compared with the United States or a failure of the APacHE III equation to fit the UK data.
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The excess mortality observed after case-mix adjustment using the APACHE III system in this study may be the result of either poor intensive care performance as compared with the United States or a failure of the APACHE III equation to fit the UK data.
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