Tenosynovitis US scoring systems follow synovitis and clinical scoring systems in RA and are responsive to change after biologic therapy

Clinical Scoring Systems in Thrombosis and Hemostasis.

Welcome to this special theme issue of Seminars in Thrombosis &Hemostasis on “clinical scoring systems in thrombosis and hemostasis.” Clinical scoring systems (CSSs) are known by many other names including clinical prediction rules, clinical decision rules, probability assessments, prediction models, and risk scores.1 Nomatter which term is used, CSSs are tools that quantify the individual cont...

clinical scoring systems in cystic fibrosis – what are the options for developing countries?

Scoring systems in acne vulgaris.

Acne vulgaris remains one of the most common diseases afflicting humanity and it is the skin disease most commonly treated by physicians.[1] It is a disease of the pilosebaceous units, clinically characterized by seborrhea, comedones, papules, pustules, nodules and, in some cases, scarring.[2] Although easy to diagnose, the polymorphic nature of acne vulgaris and its varied extent of involvemen...

Clinical review: Scoring systems in the critically ill

General illness severity scores are widely used in the ICU to predict outcome, characterize disease severity and degree of organ dysfunction, and assess resource use. In this article we review the most commonly used scoring systems in each of these three groups. We examine the history of the development of the initial major systems in each group, discuss the construction of subsequent versions,...

Scoring Systems and Large Margin Perceptron Ranking

Perceptron learning is proposed in the context of so-called scoring systems used for assessing creditworthiness as stipulated in the Basel II central banks capital accord of the G10-states. The approximate solution of a related ranking problem using a large margin algorithm is described. Some experimental results obtained by utilizing a Java prototype are exhibited. From these it becomes appare...