@article{ref1,
title="Consensus on severity for ocular emergency: the BAsic SEverity Score for Common OculaR Emergencies [BaSe SCOrE]",
journal="Journal of ophthalmology",
year="2015",
author="Bourges, Jean-Louis and Boutron, Isabelle and Monnet, Dominique and Brézin, Antoine P.",
volume="2015",
number="",
pages="e576983-e576983",
abstract="PURPOSE. To weigh ocular emergency events according to their severity. <br><br>METHODS. A group of ophthalmologists and researchers rated the severity of 86 common ocular emergencies using a Delphi consensus method. The ratings were attributed on a 7-point scale throughout a first-round survey. Then, the experts were provided with the median and quartiles of the ratings of each item to reevaluate the severity levels being aware of the group's first-round responses. The final severity rating for each item corresponded to the median rating provided by the last Delphi round. <br><br>RESULTS. We invited 398 experts, and 80 (20%) of them, from 18 different countries, agreed to participate. A consensus was reached in the second round, completed by 24 experts (43%). The severity ranged from subconjunctival hemorrhages (median = 1, Q1 = 0; Q3 = 1) to penetrating eye injuries collapsing the eyeball with intraocular foreign body or panophthalmitis with infection following surgery (median = 5, Q1 = 5; Q3 = 6). The ratings did not differ according to the practice of the experts. <br><br>CONCLUSION. These ratings could be used to assess the severity of ocular emergency events, to serve in composite algorithms for emergency triage and standardizing research in ocular emergencies.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2090-004X",
doi="10.1155/2015/576983",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/576983"
}