Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wexner, Steven D

Titel

Scoring systems for diverticular disease

Ist Teil von

• Gut, 2022-07, Vol.71 (7), p.1245-1246

Ort / Verlag

England: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Scoring systems are of immense importance throughout every facet of medicine. These scores allow us to obtain some objective measure of an otherwise subjective phenomenon such as faecal incontinence,1 constipation2 and Crohn’s disease.3 4 In addition to scoring and staging systems allowing us to categorise and stratify the severity of a condition, they also allow us to monitor the efficacy of treatment or lack thereof.5 Some use objective data to predict scores, such as the American Society of Anesthesiologists score and the American College of Surgeons’ National Surgical Quality Improvement Program risk calculators.6 For many years, we have relied on the tumour, node, metastasis (TNM) classification of cancer to allow us to appropriately evaluate and manage the entire myriad of malignancies.