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...

PURPOSE For measuring symptoms of fecal incontinence, summary scoring systems are widely used, but rigorous psychometric validation or assessment of such systems in terms of patients' subjective perception has rarely been done to date. This study was designed to assess the correlation between each severity measure and patients' subjective perception or clinicians' clinical assessment. We attemp...

C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Erol B (2015) Fournier’s Gangrene and Prognostic Scoring Systems. Int Arch Urol Complic 1:001e Received: February 08, 2015: Accepted: February 14, 2015: Published: February 17, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Erol B. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distrib...

OBJECTIVE Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is a clonal hematopoietic stem cell disease. Patients are at risk of developing cytopenias or progression to acute myeloid leukemia. Different classifications and prognostic scoring systems have been developed. The aim of this study was to compare the different prognostic scoring systems. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred and one patients who were diag...

Dermatologists have the privilege of examining the largest organ of the body. However, unlike other organs, there are hardly any tests of clinical significance that measure skin function. In dermatological practice, methods of evaluating the severity of skin diseases are often crude, subjective and not reproducible, which creates discrepancy in results and inter-individual variations. Hence, to...

Since introduction of oral chemotherapy in the treatment of CML there is a continual effort for estimation of prognosis including future response to the therapy. Despite the first efficient prognostic scoring systems were designed for the patients treated with busulfan or hydroxyurea and interferon-alpha, respectively, Sokal and Hasford (Euro) scores are used for the patients treated with tyros...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT The decision for operative treatment of patients with spinal metastases is dependent on the patient's predicted survival. Tokuhashi, Tomita, Bauer, and Oswestry scores have been devised for survival prediction; however, none of these systems have been evaluated in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). PURPOSE To investigate the accuracy of these scoring systems in predicting surv...

Emergency laparotomy is the commonest emergency surgical procedure in most hospitals and includes over 400 diverse surgical procedures. Despite the evolution of medicine and surgical practices, the mortality in patients needing emergency laparotomy remains abnormally high. Although surgical risk assessment first started with the ASA Physical Status score in 1941, efforts to find an ideal scorin...

L. Kohlberg (1969) argued that his moral stages captured a developmental sequence specific to the moral domain. To explore that contention, the author compared stage assignments obtained with the Standard Issue Scoring System (A. Colby & L. Kohlberg, 1987a, 1987b) and those obtained with a generalized content-independent stage-scoring system called the Hierarchical Complexity Scoring System (T....