Why Severity Models Should be Used with Caution

APACHE II-A Severity of Disease Classification System

1986 • 12,607 citations

APACHE II

1985 • 12,347 citations

Value of the Ventilation/Perfusion Scan in Acute Pulmonary Embolism

1990 • 2,702 citations

Treatment of Gram-Negative Bacteremia and Septic Shock with HA-1A Human Monoclonal Antibody against Endotoxin

1991 • 1,611 citations

A simplified acute physiology score for ICU patients

1984 • 1,244 citations

The APACHE III Prognostic System

1992 • 635 citations

Withholding and Withdrawal of Life Support from the Critically Ill

1990 • 621 citations

Adult Open Heart Surgery in New York State

1990 • 542 citations

Improved outcomes from tertiary center pediatric intensive care

1991 • 335 citations

A method for predicting survival and mortality of ICU patients using objectively derived weights

1985 • 324 citations

Short-Rerm Mortality Predictions for Critically Ill Hospitalized Adults: Science and Ethics

1991 • 242 citations

Anti-Endotoxin Monoclonal Antibodies

1992 • 235 citations

Patterns of Resource Consumption in Medical Intensive Care*

1991 • 204 citations

Refining intensive care unit outcome prediction by using changing probabilities of mortality

1988 • 188 citations

Predicting outcome among intensive care unit patients using computerised trend analysis of daily Apache II scores corrected for organ system failure

1988 • 173 citations

lnterhospital comparisons of patient outcome from intensive care

1989 • 169 citations

Predicting outcome in critical care: the current status of the APACHE prognostic scoring system

1991 • 153 citations

APACHE II Score Does Not Predict Multiple Organ Failure or Mortality in Postoperative Surgical Patients

1990 • 148 citations

Textbook of Critical Care

1989 • 131 citations

An initial comparison of intensive care in Japan and the United States

1992 • 118 citations

Predicting deaths among intensive care unit patients

1988 • 118 citations

Evaluation of APACHE II for Cost Containment and Quality Assurance

1990 • 103 citations

A comparison of methods to predict mortality of intensive care unit patients

1987 • 97 citations

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) and Glasgow Coma Scores as predictors of outcome from intensive care after cardiac arrest

1991 • 95 citations

Predicting Outcome after ICU Admission

1992 • 88 citations

Explaining Variability of Cost Using a Severity-of-lllness Measure for ICU Patients

1990 • 81 citations

Predicting Patient Outcome from Intensive Care: A Guide to APACHE, MPM, SAPS, PRISM, and Other Prognostic Scoring Systems

1990 • 79 citations

Influence of political power, medical provincialism, and economic incentives on the rationing of surgical intensive care unit beds

1992 • 72 citations

Variability in Physician Estimates of Survival for Acute Respiratory Failure in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

1987 • 68 citations

Intensive care medicine

1990 • 67 citations

Civilian triage in the intensive care unit

1993 • 66 citations

Prospective evaluation of residents and nurses as severity score data collectors

1992 • 63 citations

Outcome prediction models on admission in a medical intensive care unit

1990 • 61 citations

Assessment of Prediction of Mortality by Using the APACHE II Scoring System in Intensive-Care Units

1990 • 51 citations

Mortality prediction models in intensive care

1991 • 51 citations

Using Severity Measures to Describe High Performance Intensive Care Units

1993 • 48 citations

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) score and outcome in the surgical intensive care unit

1991 • 38 citations

Critical care

1992 • 14 citations

Scoring systems

1991 • 8 citations

Diagnostic Methods in Critical Care

1988 • 8 citations

MORTALITY PROBABILITY MODELS (MPMo AND MPM24) BASED ON 19,124 PATIENTS

1993 • 4 citations