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Adjectival Hyphens
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"It involves two sections - one assessing the severity of the acute illness and another assessing a patient's pre-illness chronic medical status. The worst values the patient achieves in the first 24 hours of admission to the intensive care unit should be used 2."

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Acronyms
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"The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) score is an illness severity score commonly used in critical care medicine to predict mortality upon admission to an intensive care unit."

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"Although designed to calculate mortality in an intensive care unit, the APACHE score has a high sensitivity for predicting complications of acute pancreatitis, such as pancreatic necrosis and organ failure 3.The fourth iteration - APACHE IV - was published in 2006 4; however, the APACHE II score is still frequently used (c. 2023) 5."

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"Although designed to calculate mortality in an intensive care unit, the APACHE score has a high sensitivity for predicting complications of acute pancreatitis, such as pancreatic necrosis and organ failure 3.The fourth iteration - APACHE IV - was published in 2006 4; however, the APACHE II score is still frequently used (c. 2023) 5."

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"Although designed to calculate mortality in an intensive care unit, the APACHE score has a high sensitivity for predicting complications of acute pancreatitis, such as pancreatic necrosis and organ failure 3.The fourth iteration - APACHE IV - was published in 2006 4; however, the APACHE II score is still frequently used (c. 2023) 5."

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"APACHE II"

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"The following criteria are used in the calculation of the APACHE II score 2:"

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"past history of organ failure or immunocompromised state (e.g. NYHA Class IV heart failure, cirrhosis, CKD requiring dialysis)"

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"The APACHE score was first developed in 1981 by the American intensivist William Knaus and his colleagues 1. It was revised in 1985 to become the APACHE II score 2."

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"The APACHE score was first developed in 1981 by the American intensivist William Knaus and his colleagues 1. It was revised in 1985 to become the APACHE II score 2."

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Headings Case
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"APACHE II"

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List Caps
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"Glasgow Coma Scale"

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"PaO2 (if FiO2 is less than 0.5)"

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Headings Valid
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Expected headings

  • H1 Usage
  • H1 Classification
  • H1 History and etymology
  • H1 Related pathology
  • H1 See also

"APACHE II"

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Semicolons
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"Although designed to calculate mortality in an intensive care unit, the APACHE score has a high sensitivity for predicting complications of acute pancreatitis, such as pancreatic necrosis and organ failure 3.The fourth iteration - APACHE IV - was published in 2006 4; however, the APACHE II score is still frequently used (c. 2023) 5."

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Inline EG
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"past history of organ failure or immunocompromised state (e.g. NYHA Class IV heart failure, cirrhosis, CKD requiring dialysis)"

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Biographical Lifespan
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"History and etymology"

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