Development of an abbreviated symptom score for the neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Inna ChervonevaS C Adeniyi-JonesF BlancoWalter K Kraft

Published in: Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association (2020)

Shortened scoring instruments were identified with the high-predictive power for clinical endpoints based on the 19-element full MOTHER NAS score. There was no substantial variation in performance for age, supporting the current practice of utilizing a single scoring tool regardless of postnatal age.

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primary care
case report