Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Comparative Study
Comparison of the rapid emergency medicine score and APACHE II in nonsurgical emergency department patients.
To improve the Rapid Acute Physiology Score (RAPS) as a predictor of in-hospital mortality in the nonsurgical emergency department (ED) by including age and oxygen saturation, and to compare this new system, Rapid Emergency Medicine Score (REMS), with the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Examination (APACHE II) with reference to predictive accuracy. ⋯ RAPS could be improved as a predictor of in-hospital mortality in the nonsurgical ED by including oxygen saturation and patient age to the system. This new scoring system, REMS, had the same predictive accuracy as the well-established, but more complicated, APACHE II.