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CILP study
Child and Infant Learning Project (CILP), NCT00077831: Seattle Children's Hospital longitudinal study led by Matt Speltz on cognitive and motor development in single-suture craniosynostosis, with 125 matched case-control pairs showing presurgery delays.
Gross Motor Function Classification System
The Gross Motor Function Classification System, or GMFCS, is a five-level scale classifying how children with cerebral palsy sit and walk, introduced by Robert Palisano and colleagues in 1997.
Hospital frailty risk score
The Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) is a frailty score calculated from routine hospital ICD-10 codes, introduced by Thomas Gilbert and colleagues in The Lancet in 2018.
Nephrometry
Nephrometry, or nephrometry score, is a set of urology scoring systems that rate kidney tumor complexity on CT imaging, led by the R.E.N.A.L. and PADUA scores from 2009.
Nonstress test
Nonstress test (NST), a third-trimester antenatal fetal surveillance test recording fetal heart rate for 20+ minutes; reactive if two or more accelerations occur, with ~99.5-99.8% negative predictive value but ~50% false-positive nonreactive rate.
Numeric rating scale
The numeric rating scale is a self-report pain measure in which a patient rates pain intensity by choosing a number from 0 to 10, standard in clinical trials since 2005.
Urodynamic testing
Urodynamic testing is the study of urine storage and evacuation by the lower urinary tract, recording bladder pressures to diagnose the cause of urinary symptoms.