Abstract:Objective To assess the early warning function of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) Ⅱ and Ⅲ score in analyzing the disease prognosis and predicting the risk of death in hospitalized patients, and to discuss the clinical effectiveness and application prospect of the two systems. Methods The clinical data of 158 cases were retrospectively analyzed. The patients of the survival group and the death group were scored with APACHE Ⅱ and APACHE Ⅲ systems, and their differences were compared. Meanwhile, the area under the ROC curve (AUC) was applied to compare the two scoring methods for prognosis evaluation of clinical patients. Results The scores of APACHE Ⅱ and Ⅲ in the survivor group [(13.720 ± 4.870) and (39.255 ± 11.737) respectively] were significantly lower than those in the death group [(17.625 ± 3.815) and (55.625 ±10.042) respectively, P < 0.01]. The AUC of APACHE Ⅱ and Ⅲ were 0.688 and 0.869 respectively. The 95% confidence interval were 0.536-0.841 and 0.782-0.956, respectively. The APACHE Ⅱ scoring was more sensitive than the APACHE Ⅲ scoring (P < 0.05). Conclusions The APACHE Ⅲ scoring is better in assessment of inpatient prognosis than APACHE Ⅱ scoring, and can effectively evaluate patients' prognosis and predict the risk of death. Therefore, it is worthy of further promotion.