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August 24, 2006Critical Care Medicine

Intensive care unit length of stay: Benchmarking based on Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) IV*

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Population

critically ill patient groups

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Authors

JZJack E. ZimmermanAKAndrew A. KramerDMDouglas McNair

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Overview

Supports group-level APACHE IV use for ICU benchmarking; leaves open accurate individual length-of-stay prediction.

Structured PICO

P
Population
critically ill patient groups
I
Intervention
Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) IV model
O
Outcome
ICU length of stay predictions

The APACHE IV model is useful for benchmarking ICU length of stay for patient groups to assess unit efficiency, but has limited accuracy for individual patient predictions.

Limitations

  • accuracy and utility are limited for individual patients

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Zimmerman et al. (2006) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d95ed804deaa6ab568422ahttps://doi.org/10.1097/01.ccm.0000240233.01711.d9
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