- N H Naqvi
Prognostic scoring
Prediction of outcome of disease and risk assessment by a system of scoring has now been widely accepted in modern medicine. The concept is not new. Hippocrates wrote in Prognostica, “I hold that it is an excellent thing for a physician to practise forecasting.”
Substantial evidence of prognostic scoring was found in an Arabic manuscript—the MS 329 at the John Rylands University of Manchester library entitled The Sufficient in …
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