COMPARING THE ACCURACY OF AN ONLINE PROGNOSTICATION TOOL WITH CLINICAL TEAM PROGNOSTICATION

The fine art of prognostication

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Accuracy of neurovascular fellows' prognostication of outcome after subarachnoid hemorrhage.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy and optimal timing of physician prognostication in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage, a prototypical neurological disease characterized by variable outcomes and frequent disability. METHODS From October 2009 to April 2010, treating neurologists at a tertiary care academic medical center made daily predictions o...

Prognostication: medicine's lost art.

Accuracy of Preoperative Scoring Systems for the Prognostication and Treatment of Patients with Spinal Metastases

BACKGROUND In patients with spinal metastatic disease, survival prognosis is a key consideration in selection for surgery and determining the extent of treatment. Individual survival prediction however remains difficult. We sought to validate the prognostic accuracy of seven preoperative scoring systems. METHODS 61 patients surgically treated for spinal metastases were retrospectively reviewe...

Neurological prognostication after cardiac arrest

The care of the comatose cardiac arrest patient and his/her relatives in the ICU constitutes a major challenge for intensivists. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) affects more than 275.000 Europeans yearly; survival rates are disturbingly low and have until recently remained unchanged [1]. During the last several years, significant efforts have been made to improve the quality of prehospita...