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Why it matters

Clinical scores and risk calculators help standardize diagnosis, triage, and treatment decisions, but details are often scattered across papers, guidelines, and calculator websites. A curated core list creates a foundational layer for the health graph, linking scores to conditions, populations, thresholds, and recommended actions, improving evidence based decision support across specialties and care settings.

What to publish

  • Name

  • Description: clear and plain language explanation of what the score does and its primary purpose

  • Score: risk prediction, severity, prognosis, diagnostic support, triage, bleeding risk, stroke risk, mortality risk

  • Use: main clinical function or use case

Scope

Top 20 scoring systems prioritized by clinical prevalence, workflow importance, and cross specialty usage including:

  • Cardiovascular and stroke risk (ASCVD risk estimator, CHA2DS2 VASc, HAS BLED, HEART score)

  • Emergency and acute care triage (NEWS2, MEWS, CURB 65, Wells score, PERC rule)

  • Critical care severity and mortality (SOFA, qSOFA, APACHE II, SAPS II)

  • Neurology and hemorrhage severity (NIHSS, ICH score, Glasgow Coma Scale)

  • Kidney and liver severity staging (KDIGO AKI staging, Child Pugh score, MELD)

  • Obstetrics and other common tools (Bishop score, FRAX fracture risk)

Potential sources

  • Professional society guidelines and original score publications

  • MDCalc and other widely used clinical calculator references

  • NIH clinical guidance where applicable

  • CDC clinical guidance where applicable

  • Cochrane validation studies

  • PubMed validation studies

  • Risk model reporting standards materials

  • EHR decision support implementation references used for neutral functional descriptions