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Publication name	Author	Description	Journal	Size (Mb)
NIH Stroke Scale	unkown	NIH Stroke Scale	unkown	0.374
Narayan's Logistic Model to Predict Coma Outcome	Contant CF Jr Narayan RK. Enas GG	Narayan's logistic model uses multivariate analysis to predict the probability of poor or good outcome in patients with coma.	Neurological Surgery Fourth Edition	0.072
National Osteoporosis Foundation Score	Cadarette SM Jaglal SB	Cadarette et al defined the NOF score to incorporate the recommendations made by the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) for identifying postmenopausal women who may should have imaging studies for osteoporosis	JAMA	0.066
Neck Disability Index	Fairbank JCT Davies JB. Pollard CA. Vernon H Mior S.	Patient-completed, condition-specific functional status questionnaire, based on the Oswestry low back pain questionnaire. 10 items including pain, personal care, lifting, reading, headaches, concentration, work, driving, sleeping and recreation. Each item	J Manipulative Physiological Therapeutics	0.162
Neck Pain Score of Jordan	Jensen MP Karoly P Braver S. Jordan A Bendix T,	Jordan et al described a method for measuring neck and associated radicular pain in patients with neck disorders. The study was done in Copenhagen Denmark	Jordan A Manniche C	0.051
Neonatal Facial Coding System	Craig KD Hadjistavropoulos HD, Grunau RVE,	Neonatal Facial Coding System for Pain Evaluation in Newborn Infants. Grunau and Craig used facial actions to monitor pain in newborn infants. This can be used to monitor pain in premature and full-term infants. The authors are from British Columbia Child	Pain	0.07
Neonatal Infant Pain Scale	Lawrence J Alcock D	The Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS) is a behavioral assessment tool for measurement of pain in preterm and full-term neonates. This can be used to monitor a neonate before during and after a painful procedure such as venipuncture. It was developed at th	Neonatal Network	0.095
Neonatal Morbidity Scale	Minde K Whitelaw A	The Neonatal Morbidity Scale was developed by Minde et al to evaluate the relationship between the severity of complications in premature infants and subsequent maternal-child interactions. The score is based on 20 of the most common significant problems	Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology	0.192
Neurodevelopmental Disability in Infants	Chaoying M Junwu G	A variety of neurologic injuries may occur to the fetus in utero or in the newborn infant after delivery. These may result from intraventricular hemorrhage hypoxia infection or other cause. The injuries may result in long term disability	J Trop Pediatrics	0.066
Neurologic Rating Scale (NRS) / SCRIPPS / Scripps Neurological Rating Scale	Sipe JC Knobler RL	Staff-completed global assessment scale of cognition, affect and mood. Linear scaled measurements between -1 and +4, with 0 as the baseline i.e. normal function. Specific weighting for vision, motor, sensory and cerebellar symptoms. Summed final score wit	Neurology	0.191
New Ballard Score	Ballard JL Khoury JC	The New Ballard Score is an enhancement of the original Ballard Score. It is designed to provide greater accuracy and to include extremely premature infants	J Pediatr	0.151
New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification in a Patient with Heart Disease	Cocchiarella L Andersson GBJ	New York Heart Association (NYHA) Functional Classification in a Patient with Heart Disease	American Medical Association	0.093
NIOSH Lifting Equation for the Recommended Weigth Limit (revised edition)	Waters TR Baron SL	The revised NIOSH lifting equation can be used to calculate the recommended weight limit for workers performing two-handed manual lifting	Spine	0.185
Northwick Park Index of Independence in ADL	Benjamin, Sheikh, Smith	The Northwick Park Index of Independence in ADL was developed to measure activities of daily life and the ability to caarry out these activities independently. It was developed at Northwick Park Hospital in Middlesex England	unkown	0.127
Northwick Park Neck Pain Questionnaire	Leak AM Cooper J	The Northwick Park Neck Pain Questionnaire was developed to measure neck pain and the consequent patient disability. It is relatively simple to use and provides an objective measure for monitoring symptoms over time. It was developed at Northwick Park Hos	Br J Rheumatol	0.131
Nutrition Score	Deter RL Harrist RB. Hata T Hill RM.	The Nutrition Score is used to assess the subcutaneous fat deposits of the newborn infant	J Clin Ultrasound	0.094

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