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Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale
The Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) is a five-level triage system used in emergency departments, assigning each patient an acuity level from resuscitation to non-urgent.
Controlling nutritional status score
The Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score is a laboratory screening tool that quantifies malnutrition from three routine blood tests: serum albumin, total cholesterol, and total lymphocyte count.
Early warning score
An early warning score (EWS) is a bedside scoring method that turns routinely measured vital signs into one aggregate number used to trigger escalation of clinical care in acute illness.
Gensini score
The Gensini score is an angiographic index quantifying coronary artery disease severity from angiograms, weighting each stenosis by narrowing and segment importance, described by Goffredo Gensini in 1983.
International Prognostic Scoring System (myelodysplastic syndromes)
The International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) is a 1997 hematology risk score for myelodysplastic syndromes, using marrow blasts, karyotype, and cytopenias to predict survival and AML transformation.
Khorana score
The Khorana score is a five-variable risk-prediction model estimating the risk of venous thromboembolism in ambulatory cancer patients starting chemotherapy, introduced by Alok Khorana and colleagues in 2008 and endorsed by major guidelines.
Patient-reported outcome measure
A patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) is a questionnaire completed by patients to record their symptoms, function, or quality of life, with no interpretation by a clinician.
STONE score
The STONE score is a clinical prediction rule that estimates the probability of a ureteral stone in emergency department patients with suspected renal colic, using five bedside variables.
Triage
Triage (from French trier, to sort) is medical prioritization of patients by urgency, from battlefield origins with Larrey (1792) to five-level ED scales (ESI, MTS, CTAS, ATS, SATS), disaster triage, and AI systems.