A clinical score for prognosis of status epilepticus in adults.

Rossetti, Andrea O; Logroscino, Giancarlo; Bromfield, Edward B · Neurology · 2006

retrospective_cohort · Level III

Where this comes from

Abstract

The authors derived a clinical score to predict mortality in status epilepticus (SE) from analysis of a retrospective SE cohort, using four variables available at presentation: history of seizures, age, seizure type, and consciousness impairment. Validation on a small prospective SE series (34 patients) resulted in sensitivity, 1.000; specificity, 0.643; negative predictive value, 1.000; and unweighted accuracy, 0.822. This simple clinical score may reliably identify patients surviving after SE.

Medical subject headings