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Acuity of Illness and Risk Prediction in Critically I11 Adults: The APACHE III Intensive Care Unit Management System

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Decision Support Systems in Critical Care

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Providing patients with state-of-the-art, quality care has been a hallmark of 20-century medicine. Critical care units developed as an extension of postoperative recovery rooms and with the dissemination of effective electronic electrocardiographic cardiac monitoring, external cardiac massage, and respiratory support. Intensive care units (ICUs) proliferated worldwide in an attempt to improve patient outcome and overall quality of care by concentrating technology in the hospital environment.

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  1. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 90048-1865, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    M. Michael Shabot M.D. (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology) (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology)

  2. UCLA School of Medicine, 90048, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    M. Michael Shabot M.D. (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology) (Associate Director of Surgery Director of Surgical Intensive Care Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Anesthesiology)

  3. Medical Computing, LDS Hospital, 84143, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Reed M. Gardner Ph.D. (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics) (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics)

  4. University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Reed M. Gardner Ph.D. (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics) (Co-Director Professor of Medical Informatics)

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Knaus, W.A., Sirio, C. (1994). Acuity of Illness and Risk Prediction in Critically I11 Adults: The APACHE III Intensive Care Unit Management System. In: Shabot, M.M., Gardner, R.M. (eds) Decision Support Systems in Critical Care. Computers and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2698-7_16

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