(2013) MEKITARIAN FILHO, Eduardo; HORITA, Sergio Massaru; GILIO, Alfredo Elias; ALVES, Anna Claudia Dominguez; NIGROVIC, Lise E.
In a retrospective cohort of 494 children with meningitis in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Bacterial Meningitis Score identified all the children with bacterial meningitis (sensitivity 100%, 95% confidence interval: 92-100% and negative predictive value 100%, 95% confidence interval: 98-100%). Addition of cerebrospinal fluid lactate to the score did not improve clinical prediction rule performance.