Medical history score

Medical history score (child) Hospital admission for head injury, history of fits, presence of chronic or recurrent illness. 

Use of aspirin within the past 7 days Using the TIMI Risk Score One point is assigned for each of the seven medical history and... 

The study recorded the medical history, medications, symptom details, examination findings, final diagnosis, treatment plans and one-year outcomes (assessed by phone calls) of all referrals. In the first report of all 629 consecutive patients with definite TIA seen from January 2003 to December 2005, there were three strokes within seven days and 12 strokes within three months of follow-up, giving risks of 0.3% and 1.9%, respectively. The expected risk of stroke at three months as calculated by the ABCD score (Johnston et al. 2007) was 6%. Although there was no formal comparison arm of the study, the considerable reduction in observed rates of stroke compared with those expected by the ABCD score was reasonably attributed to urgent access to and treatment in a dedicated specialist neurovascular unit. However, it should be noted that this study only assessed stroke risk among patients referred to the clinic and not all those within the population. 

If withdrawal is from alcohol, administer the CIWA-Ar to determine withdrawal severity. A score of 8 to 10 denotes relatively mild withdrawal, and the patient can be treated as an outpatient with supportive care only. A score from 11 to 14 can be treated on either an outpatient or inpatient basis, with either supportive care or with benzodiazepines, depending on the presence of underlying medical problems and the prior history of... 

For the appropriate development of covariate distribution models, the pharmaceutical industry has huge amount of data in their clinical databases. In addition, there are also public databases available which can be used, like the Congestive Heart Failure Database (http //www.physionet.org/) derived from patients undergoing cardiac catheterization at Duke Medical Centre during 1990-1996 (about 4000 patients, data on demographics, risk factors histories, cardiac catheterization, EKG, cardiac scores, follow-up data). 

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