Efficacy of care in Fatemeh Zahra hospital’s ICU wards according to APACHE II score
| Autor: | Mehrzad Bahtouee, Hossein Heydari, Niloofar Motamed, Abdolrasoul Anvaripour, Hossein Farzam |
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| Jazyk: | English<br />Persian |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Iranian South Medical Journal, Vol 15, Iss 4, Pp 317-326 (2012) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1735-4374 1735-6954 |
| Popis: | Background: The prediction of death in intensive care units is done by using scoring systems (eg APACHE II) which assess disease severity. This study was performed in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) of Boushehr’s Fatemeh Zahra hospital to evaluate the efficacy of APACH II system and also to compare the observed mortality with the predicted mortality rate and also to that of some creditable centers. Material and Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study was performed on one hundred patients with critical conditions on the day of their admission to the ICU wards. Data were analysed by Chi Square, student T, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, ROC curve and spearman correlation coefficient using SPSS version 13. Results: The mean score in internal medicine ICU (60 patients) was15.45 and in surgery’s ICU (40 patients) was 11.1. There was a positive correlation between the acquired score and mortality (p |
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