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Do APACHE II, APACHE III, and SAPS II scoring systems accurately predict hospital mortality in adult patients in an interdisciplinary intensive care unit?
Do APACHE II, APACHE III, and SAPS II scoring systems accurately predict hospital mortality in adult patients in an interdisciplinary intensive care unit?
APACHE II demonstrated better calibration and overall goodness-of-fit for predicting hospital mortality in a German interdisciplinary ICU compared to APACHE III and SAPS II, despite slightly better discrimination by the newer systems.
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APACHE II may remain preferable for mortality prediction in interdisciplinary ICUs due to superior calibration; leaves open external validation of newer scores.
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