amscorer - Clinical Scores Calculator for Healthcare
Provides functions to compute various clinical scores used
in healthcare. These include the Charlson Comorbidity Index
(CCI), predicting 10-year survival in patients with multiple
comorbidities; the EPICES score, an individual indicator of
precariousness considering its multidimensional nature; the
MELD score for chronic liver disease severity; the Alternative
Fistula Risk Score (a-FRS) for postoperative pancreatic fistula
risk; and the Distal Pancreatectomy Fistula Risk Score (D-FRS)
for risk following distal pancreatectomy. For detailed
methodology, refer to Charlson et al. (1987)
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<doi:10.1056/NEJMoa0801209> Kim et al. (2021)
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(2023) <doi:10.1097/SLA.0000000000005497>..