Combining Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) Score with Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II Score to Predict Hospital Mortality of Critically Ill Patients

• Published in: Anaesthesia and intensive care Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 515 - 521
• Main Author: Ho, K. M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edgecliff Anaesthesia and Intensive Care 01.08.2007; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Adult; Aged; Anesthesia; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; APACHE; Biological and medical sciences; Cohort Studies; Critical Illness - mortality; Female; Hospital Mortality; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Multiple Organ Failure - diagnosis; Multiple Organ Failure - mortality; Regression Analysis; ROC Curve; Severity of Illness Index; Western Australia - epidemiology; Western Australia; Human; severity of illness; Chronic; Prognosis; Critically ill; Mortality; prognostication; Risk factor; Anesthesia; outcomes assessment; risk adjustment

The ability to accurately adjust for the severity of illness in outcome studies of critically ill patients is essential. Previous studies have showed that Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II score can predict hospital mortal...