severityscore
Severity score, or severityscore, is a general term for a numerical metric intended to quantify how severely a patient is affected by a disease, injury, or syndrome. Such scores are used to stratify risk, guide treatment decisions, and compare outcomes across patients or groups. There is no universal severity score; instead, many domain-specific scales have been developed for particular conditions or settings.
Most severity scores combine multiple data elements, such as vital signs, laboratory results, imaging findings, and
Examples include APACHE II and APACHE III in critical care, SOFA for organ failure assessment, the Injury
Validation typically assesses discrimination, such as the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC), and
In research datasets and electronic health records, a field named severityscore may be used to standardize