Prospective validation of the ICH Score for 12-month functional outcome

Abstract

The ICH Score is a valid clinical grading scale for long-term functional outcome after acute intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Many ICH patients improve after hospital discharge and this improvement may continue even after 6 months post-ICH.

Warfarin‐related intracerebral haemorrhage: better outcomes when reversal includes prothrombin complex concentrates

“…These are all included in the ICH score, which has been shown to predict mortality. 19 ICH scores are not used in routine clinical practice in our hospital, so were calculated for each patient, retrospectively. Comparisons between cohorts were adjusted for confounding factors, such as severity (using ICH score) and palliation.…”

Declining mortality in neurocritical care patients: a cohort study in Southern Alberta over eleven years

“…These potential confounders were selected a priori because they are well known to be strongly associated with outcomes among neurocritical care patients with a variety of diagnoses. [39][40][41][42] We also adjusted for diagnostic case mix (TBI vs other diagnoses), compared temporal trends between different diagnostic subgroups, and in a separate analysis considered time as a continuous variable (per 365-day block rather than for longer time periods). We also compared outcomes before and after certain developments in our region: availability of fellowship-trained neurocritical care specialists for consultation ( Because the APACHE II score includes age and GCS score as covariates, we calculated a modified score from which their contribution was subtracted.…”

Do-not-resuscitate orders and predictive models after intracerebral hemorrhage

“…Status as dead or alive at 30 days was determined through in-person or telephone interview (California only), review of medical records, or search of state and national databases as previously described. 10,14 CT scans were reviewed for volume and location of hemorrhage by study investigators as previously described. 10,15 Hemorrhage volume was calculated using the ABC/2 method.…”