NEXUS Chest CT (Rodriguez 2015). Chest CT-Major is negative only when abnormal CXR, distracting injury, chest-wall, sternal, thoracic-spine, and scapular tenderness are…
NEXUS C-spine rule (Hoffman 2000). The patient is NEXUS low-risk, and imaging is not indicated by this rule, only when all five hold: no posterior midline cervical-spine…
Newsom 2014 modified Rothrock rule for chest radiography in nontraumatic emergency chest pain. CXR indicated if any of: age ≥65 years, history of congestive heart failur…
NEWS2 from RCP 2017 Chart 1: respiratory rate, SpO2 on caller-assigned Scale 1 or Scale 2, supplemental oxygen, temperature (C), systolic BP, heart rate, and caller-assi…
New Orleans Head CT Rule (Haydel 2000). CT is indicated if any of seven findings: headache, vomiting, age over 60, drug or alcohol intoxication, short-term memory defici…
Weiss 2004 National ED Overcrowding Study (NEDOCS) reduced five-variable model: ED patients indexed to ED beds, boarding indexed to hospital beds, respirators, longest a…
Kleiner 2005 NAFLD activity score (NAS): caller-assigned steatosis 0-3 (<5% / 5–33% / >33–66% / >66%), lobular_inflammation 0-3 (none / <2 foci per 200× / 2–4 / >4), bal…
Nadler 1962 predicted blood volume in liters from height, weight, and sex (separate male and female equations). Deterministic published arithmetic with citation. For adu…
Popoveniuc 2014 myxedema coma points from caller-assigned bands: thermoregulatory 0/10/20; CNS 0/10/15/20/30; GI 0/5/15/20; precipitant 10; bradycardia 0/10/20/30 plus o…
Stratton 2004 Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) for adults. Three additive scores, max 6: BMI (>20 → 0, 18.5–20 → 1 including 20.0, <18.5 → 2); unplanned weig…
Murray 1988 lung injury score (LIS): mean of four 0–4 components (caller-assigned CXR quadrants; PaO2/FiO2 ≥300→0, 225–299→1, 175–224→2, 100–174→3, <100→4; PEEP cm H2O ≤…
Mumtaz 2019 integer score for 30-day all-cause readmission after decompensated-cirrhosis index admission. Age, payer, caller-assigned Elixhauser >=3, nonalcoholic etiolo…
Guo 2019 MuLBSTA viral pneumonia mortality score. Caller-assigned multilobular infiltrates (5), lymphocyte count ≤0.8 ×10^9/L (4), bacterial coinfection (4), exclusive s…
Lipton 2015 mTOQ-4 from four caller-assigned frequency items: pain-free within 2 hours, one dose keeps headache away ≥24 hours, comfortable enough to plan daily activiti…
Modified SOFA (mSOFA) from Grissom 2010 Table 2: SpO2/FiO2 respiration, caller-assigned scleral icterus or jaundice (0 or 3), MAP and adrenergic agents, caller-assigned…
Lencioni 2010 mRECIST for typical intrahepatic HCC target lesions. First-match: PD if new_lesion or a 20% or greater viable-sum increase vs nadir; else CR if arterial en…
Smith 2012 unweighted modified Sgarbossa for STEMI equivalent in LBBB. Positive if ANY of three caller-assigned flags is true: concordant ST elevation ≥1 mm in a lead wi…
Modified Rankin handicap grade 0-5 (van Swieten 1988) as assigned by the caller. Returns the published wording (no symptoms at all through severe disability: bedridden,…
Goetz 2004 modified Hoehn and Yahr stage (Table 1). Caller-assigned tokens 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, or 5.0 with the published description. No stage 0. Not the origi…
DeCarolis 2007 MINDS (Minnesota Detoxification Scale) 0-46: pulse and diastolic BP lt_90/90_to_110/gt_110 → 0/1/2; tremor and sweat 0/2/4/6; hallucinations 0-3; agitatio…
Mirels 1989 impending pathologic fracture score. Site upper 1 / lower 2 / peritrochanteric 3. Size lt_one_third 1 / one_to_two_thirds 2 / gt_two_thirds 3. Nature blastic…
Adult maximum normal erythrocyte sedimentation rate (mm/h, 98th percentile approximation) from age and sex (Miller 1983). Men: age/2. Women: (age + 10)/2. Deterministic…
Mazzaferro 1996 Milan criteria for small HCC in cirrhosis: meets_milan is true iff there is no preoperative vascular invasion, no extrahepatic or lymph-node disease, and…
Stewart 1999 MIDAS from five caller-assigned 3-month day counts: missed paid work/school, work/school ≥50% reduced, missed household work, household ≥50% reduced, missed…
