Minerva anestesiologica
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Minerva anestesiologica · Apr 1995
[Assessment of intensive therapy: 4-year experience using the Apache II severity score].
To determine the outcome of critically ill patients and to study the characteristics of the population admitted to the intensive care unit. ⋯ These findings suggest that Apache II score is able to investigate critical ill patients, to stratify patients into disease groups and to quantify correctly the overall risk of death but cannot be used in decision making or to govern admissions in intensive care unit.