Washington University Medical Center

APACHE II

This paper presents the form and validation results of APACHE II, a severity of disease classification system. APACHE II uses a point score based upon initial values of 12 routi...

The Effects of Dietary Protein Restriction and Blood-Pressure Control on the Progression of Chronic Renal Disease

Among patients with moderate renal insufficiency, the slower decline in renal function that started four months after the introduction of a low-protein diet suggests a small ben...

Unbiased average age-appropriate atlases for pediatric studies

Complete Genome Sequence of a Virulent Isolate of <i>Streptococcus pneumoniae</i>

The 2,160,837–base pair genome sequence of an isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae , a Gram-positive pathogen that causes pneumonia, bacteremia, meningitis, and otitis media, con...

Natural Disasters and Post‐traumatic Stress Disorder Short‐Term versus Long‐Term Recovery in Two Disaster‐Affected Communities¹

Post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults following disaster‐precipitated family relocation was investigated in a longitudinal study of family and individual response to n...

The Clinical Evaluation of New Drugs for Sepsis

We created an accurate independent estimate for 28-day mortality risk for patients with sepsis syndrome (severe sepsis). This estimate could improve the evaluation of new drugs ...