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Since the introduction of a 10 point scale for newborn infants [1] in 1953 by Apgar numerous scores and scales have been developed in medicine. A score is an attempt to integrate many different information like blood pressure, heart rate or laboratory data into a single one-dimensional numerical value. The more complex a clinical situation is the more efforts are made to develop and refine score systems. Therefore, many scores for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) have been published.
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Lefering, R., Goris, R.J.A. (1998). Will the Use of Scores Benefit the Individual Patient and Improve Therapy?. In: Baue, A.E., Berlot, G., Gullo, A. (eds) Sepsis and Organ Dysfunction. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2271-3_6
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