APACHE II

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In medicine and critical care, the APACHE II is a method of predicting severity of illness.

It is available online at http://www.sfar.org/scores2/apache22.html.

It was first developed in 1985.[1]

References

  1. Knaus WA, Draper EA, Wagner DP, Zimmerman JE (October 1985). "APACHE II: a severity of disease classification system". Crit. Care Med. 13 (10): 818–29. PMID 3928249[e]