Simplified Acute Physiologic Score (SAPS II) and Acute Physiologic and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II) scores of all critical patients in ICU are recorded for the sake of objectivity. To evaluate clinical recovery, progress of disease, and mortality risk, we calculated daily SAPS II and APACHE II scores using the parameters.
In our statistical analysis, we used SPSS (Chicago, IL) 10.0 program and the free t test and Mann-Whitney U test for nonparametric data. We accepted P b .05 as significant, and data are presented as mean ± standard deviation. Statistical analyses were conducted both within and intergroup