Critical care : the official journal of the Critical Care Forum
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Our aim was to assess the contribution of training in data definitions and data extraction guidelines to improving quality of data for use in intensive care scoring systems such as the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II and Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) II in the Dutch National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE) registry. ⋯ Training in data definitions and data extraction guidelines is an effective way to improve quality of intensive care scoring data.