APACHE II

Acute Physiology & Chronic Health Evaluation II. A ‘second generation’ system of objective measures for predicting the outcome of critically ill patients in an ICU based on age, physiologic status and underlying health; it acts as a tool for scoring the severity of illness in patients admitted in an intensive care unit

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APACHE II

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation, a classification system for severity of disease.

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