STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study of 180 patients with lung cancer spinal metastases, wherein prognostic score-predicted survival was compared with actual survival. OBJECTIVE To evaluate and compare the accuracy of prognostic scoring systems in lung cancer spinal metastases. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The modified Tokuhashi, Tomita, modified Bauer, and Oswestry scores are currently used to...

In this paper I examine a number of cooccurrence-based scoring systems using the British National corpus to measure word association over wide contexts. The principal aim of this paper is to address the question of how to evaluate a given scoring system, or how to compare two scoring systems, without relying on a small list of example pairs and a ‘feel’ for the results. I evaluate these systems...

credit decisions are extremely vital for any type of financial institution because it can stimulate huge financial losses generated from defaulters. credit scoring models are decision support systems that take a set of predictor variables as input and provide a score as output and creditors use these models to justify who will get credit and who will not. many different credit scoring models ha...

conclusions with regards to the predictive strength of the combination of gcs and iss, a predictive system for analyzing the clinical outcome may be provided. results 15496 traumatic patients referred to the hospital and traumatic deaths occurred in 289 patients. blunt trauma accounted for 286 (99%) of death and penetrating trauma for only 1%. our findings concerning the injury pattern, correla...

Predicting the occurrence of an adverse event over time is an important issue in clinical medicine. Clinical prediction models and associated points-based risk-scoring systems are popular statistical methods for summarizing the relationship between a multivariable set of patient risk factors and the risk of the occurrence of an adverse event. Points-based risk-scoring systems are popular amongs...

The escalating number of emergency department (ED) visits, length of stay, and hospital overcrowding have been associated with an increasing number of critically ill patients cared for in the ED. Existing physiologic scoring systems have traditionally been used for outcome prediction, clinical research, quality of care analysis, and benchmarking in the intensive care unit (ICU) environment. How...

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...