Combining multiple comorbidities with Acute Physiology Score to predict hospital mortality of critically ill patients: a linked data cohort study

• Published in: Anaesthesia Vol. 62; no. 11; pp. 1095 - 1100
• Main Authors: Ho, K. M., Finn, J., Knuiman, M., Webb, S. A. R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2007; Blackwell
• Subjects: Adult; Age Factors; Aged; Anesthesia; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; APACHE; Biological and medical sciences; Comorbidity; Critical care; Critical Illness - mortality; Hospital Mortality; Hospitals; Humans; Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data; Medical sciences; Middle Aged; Morbidity; Predictions; Prognosis; Severity of Illness Index; Survivor; Western Australia - epidemiology; Western Australia; Western Australia Australia; Human; Concomitant disease; Critically ill; Polypathology; Cohort study; Mortality; Anesthesia

Summary We investigated whether replacing the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II weighted comorbidity score with other measures of prior comorbidity would improve the prediction of hospital mortality in critically ill patients. Clinical data of 24 303 critically ill patients...