title: A clinical score for prognosis of status epilepticus in adults.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Andrea O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Rossetti
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Logroscino
authors.forename: Edward B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Bromfield
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016019:Survival Analysis; D015996:Survival Rate