A method to assess accident psychological severity in drivers

Accident and emergency departments are still failing to assess asthma severity.

OBJECTIVES To quantify the documentation of vital signs in children attending accident and emergency (A&E) for asthma and to assess whether indicators of severity were used appropriately. METHODS Records of all children aged 3 to 14 attending A&E for the treatment of asthma in four London hospitals over a three month period were examined for documentation of heart rate, respiratory rate, peak...

A new tool to assess sarcoidosis severity.

STUDY OBJECTIVES Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disorder primarily affecting the lung, but with frequent extrapulmonary organ involvement. There are no comprehensive scoring systems for sarcoidosis disease severity. Our goal was to develop and validate an objective and comprehensive sarcoidosis disease severity scoring system. DESIGN Three sarcoidosis experts reviewed clinical data on 104 pat...

Parthenium Dermatitis Severity Score to Assess Clinical Severity of Disease

BACKGROUND Parthenium dermatitis is the most common type of airborne contact dermatitis in India. It is a chronic disease of a remitting and relapsing course with significant morbidity and distress, but there is no scoring system to assess its severity. AIM To design a scoring system for the assessment of clinical severity of disease in Parthenium dermatitis and to use this scoring system in ...

How to assess the severity of bronchiectasis.

Wait long enough for a bus and two arrive at once. As with buses, so with bronchiectasis scoring systems. In this issue of the European Respiratory Journal MARTINEZ-GARCIA et al. [1] report the development of a ‘‘FACED’’ bronchiectasis prognostic score. This follows the recent publication by CHALMERS et al. [2] of the ‘‘Bronchiectasis Severity Index’’ (BSI). Bronchiectasis is a neglected diseas...

The personality of accident-prone drivers.