BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Table 3 Variables and score assignment in SAPS II

From: Using machine learning methods to predict in-hospital mortality of sepsis patients in the ICU

Variables		Maximum scores
Acute physiology	Temperature	3
	Heart rate	11
	Systolic blood pressure	13
	WBC	12
	Bilirubin	9
	Serum sodium	5
	Serum potassium	3
	Serum bicarbonate	6
	BUN	10
	Urine output	11
	PaO₂^aor FiO₂^a	11
	GCS	26
Chronic health status	AIDS^a	17
	Haematologic malignancy	10
	Metastatic cancer	9
Other	Age	18
Other	Type of admission	8
Overall score		182

^aAbbreviations: AIDS Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, PaO₂ Partial pressure of oxygen, FiO₂ Fraction of inspired oxygen

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