Editing APACHE II (section)

==Application==
APACHE II was designed to measure the severity of disease for adult patients admitted to intensive care units. It has not been validated for use in children or young people aged under 16.

This scoring system is used in many ways which include:

# Some procedures or some medicine is only given to patients with a certain APACHE II score
# APACHE II score can be used to describe the morbidity of a patient when comparing the outcome with other patients.
# Predicted mortalities are averaged for groups of patients in order to specify the group's morbidity.

Even though newer scoring systems, such as APACHE III, have replaced APACHE II in many places, APACHE II continues to be used extensively because so much documentation is based on it.{{Citation needed|date=July 2012}}