A Promising New Risk Score

At present, clinicians lack a medical risk score for mortality “that applies to the general medical population, does not require specialty-specific predictors, and is easily computed from inexpensive quantitative data,” according to researchers from Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT and University of Utah, Salt Lake City. But combining data from the routine tests of complete blood count and basic metabolic profile, they say, may be the key to providing such a score.