Meningococcal disease : a comparison of eight severity scores in 125 children

Objective: To investigate the accuracy of eight different prog- nostic scores (Stiehm, Niklasson, Leclerc, Garlund, the MOC score, Tesero, the Glasgow Meningococ- cal Septicaemia Prognostic Score (GMSPS) and Tiiyziis) in the pre- diction of fatal outcome in menin- gococcal disease. Design. Combined prospective and