Environmental health and preventive medicine
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Environ Health Prev Med · Nov 2004
Association between APACHE II score and nosocomial infections in intensive care unit patients: A multicenter cohort study.
To examine whether nosocomial infection risk increases with APACHE II score, which is an index of severity-of-illness, in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. ⋯ Nosocomial infection risk increases with APACHE II score. APACHE II score may be a good predictor of nosocomial infections in ICU patients.