NIH R01 · 2025
Implementation partner-guided strategy to promote accuracy in ICU prognostication
Accurately predicting whether patients will live or die is an essential task in critical care medicine. Yet such predictions are often incorrect based on specific patient characteristics. We and others found that Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE), Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), and other prognostic tools overestimate the risk of death for certain groups of patients. Because the incidence of serious cardiac or respiratory critical illnesses is so high, the consequences of this error are significant for clinical decision making, research, and health policy. Given that APACHE II alone has been included in >10,000 studies, an entire medical literature may…
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