Prognostic models for intracerebral hemorrhage: systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prognostic tools for intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) patients are potentially useful for ascertaining prognosis and recommended in guidelines to facilitate streamline assessment and communication between providers. In this systematic review with meta-analysis we identified and characterized all existing prognostic tools for this population, performed a methodological evaluation of the conducting and reporting of such studies and compared different methods of prognostic tool derivation in terms of discrimination for mortality and functional outcome prediction.

Methods

PubMed, ISI, Scopus and CENTRAL were searched up to 15th September 2016, with additional studies identified using reference check. Two reviewers independently extracted data regarding the population st

SUBMITTER: Gregorio T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6247734 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature