SCORING SYSTEMS FOR PREDICTING OUTCOMES OF NEONATAL SEIZURE
Abstract:
Clinicians are dealing with considerable information’s from clinical records (medical history,
symptoms) and different investigations (ultrasound examinations, functional explorations, MRI).They
have to integrate these data in difficult decisions related to the diagnosis and treatment of infants with
neonatal seizures and their subsequent complications. Different scoring systems were developed for
predicting and quantifying outcomes after neonatal seizures (mental development, motor dysfunction,
epilepsy, cerebral palsy). In this paper we propose a review of the existing scoring systems underlining
their developing/validation methods (univariate analysis, logistic regression analysis, sensitivity,
specificity) and their identified independent risk factors (for each scoring system).
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