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Development Of An Abbreviated Symptom Score For The Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome., I. Chervoneva, S. C. Adeniyi-Jones, F. Blanco, W. K. Kraft
Development Of An Abbreviated Symptom Score For The Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome., I. Chervoneva, S. C. Adeniyi-Jones, F. Blanco, W. K. Kraft
Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Faculty Papers
OBJECTIVE: We sought a shortened MOTHER neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and Finnegan score that would retain comparable performance characteristics of the full instrument.
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort.
RESULTS: In total, 124,170 MOTHER NAS scores between August 2007 and May 2016 from 775 infants (≥36 weeks) were examined. Classification and regression tree model identified the most important subsets of the scored variables. A 9-element shortened scale yielded >90% sensitivity and specificity to predict clinical endpoints based on the full 19-element MOTHER NAS score. Conversion of the data sets to the Finnegan score, and applying the same procedure resulted in a nine-element …