NASCORE, A New Scoring System for the Assessment of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

Background: The incidence of Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is increasing across the world. Finnegan scoring system is the most popular scoring system used in the management of NAS. However Finnegan scoring is lengthy, time consuming, and complex, with many measures being subjective, and operator dependent, and with different weightages for different measures. Hence we proposed a new scoring system NASCORE with 3 central nervous system signs, 3 behavioral signs, …