The Simplified Acute Physiology Score III (SAPS III) is a system for predicting mortality, one of several ICU scoring systems.
It has been designed to provide a real-life predicted mortality for a patient by following a well defined procedure, based on a mathematical model that needs calibration.
SAPS III is therefore not suitable by itself for publishing data about the morbidity of a single group of patients.
Some shared calibrations make it possible to calculate a calibration-specific SAPS III score using paper forms.
The Danish Intensive care Database (DID) has a standard-form to calculate SAPS III scores for their specific purpose, and require participating ICUs to provide:[citation needed] Each of these values are given points based on value intervals, similar to SAPS II, and a score is calculated.