Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) IV: Hospital mortality assessment for today’s critically ill patients*
Critical Care MedicinePublished 15 March 2006
Jack E. Zimmerman, Andrew A. Kramer, Douglas McNair, Fern M. Malila
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APACHE IV predictions of hospital mortality have good discrimination and calibration and should be useful for benchmarking performance in U.S. ICUs, and aggregate mortality was systematically overestimated as model age increased.
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APACHE IV predictions of hospital mortality have good discrimination and calibration and should be useful for benchmarking performance in U.S. ICUs. The accuracy of predictive models is dynamic and should be periodically retested. When accuracy deteriorates they should be revised and updated.
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