Zhonghua yi xue za zhi = Chinese medical journal; Free China ed
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Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi (Taipei) · Oct 1999
Multicenter StudyDevelopment of a new prognostic system and validation of APACHE II for surgical ICU mortality: a multicenter study in Taiwan.
To develop and to validate a new prognostic prediction system for patients admitted to the surgical intensive care unit (ICU), and to compare its performance with the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II system. ⋯ Although APACHE II correlates with mortality for surgical ICU patients in Taiwan, its accuracy is not as good as in the original study. Mortality prediction performance improved with the use of the new, local scoring system.