Application of APACHE Ⅲ in ICU Targeted Surveillance / 中华医院感染学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE To study the application of APACHE Ⅲ in ICU targeted surveillance to assess the standards for clinical illness grading and scoring.METHODS From Sep 2006 to Feb 2007,nosocomial infection was monitored among the patients in a comprehensive ICU and the APACHE Ⅲ was used in assessing the standards for clinical illness grading and scoring in comparison with the previous method.RESULTS Among 972 ICU patients over that time,264 cases were selected as the supervision targets,84 patient-times with nosocomial infection were found out with a daily incidence of 8.642%.Two clinical doctors assessed and graded patients′ conditions.There was significant difference in the results between the methods by the clinical doctors and APACHE Ⅲ(P