Refining Prognosis for Intracerebral Hemorrhage by Early Reassessment
Author(s) -
Matthew B. Maas,
Brandon Francis,
Rajbeer Singh Sangha,
Bryan Lizza,
Eric M. Liotta,
Andrew M. Naidech
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
cerebrovascular diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1421-9786
pISSN - 1015-9770
DOI - 10.1159/000452679
Subject(s) - medicine , glasgow coma scale , intracerebral hemorrhage , modified rankin scale , observational study , surgery , ischemic stroke , ischemia
Prognostic assessments, which are crucial for decision-making in critical illnesses, have shown unsatisfactory reliability. We compared the accuracy of a widely used prognostic score against a model derived from clinical data obtained 5 days after admission for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), a condition for which prognostication has proven notoriously challenging and prone to bias.
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