Jung-Ah Lim, Soon-Tae Lee, Jangsup Moon, Jin-Sun Jun, Tae-Joon Kim, Yong-Won Shin, Suhailah Abdullah, Jung-Ick Byun, Jun-Sang Sunwoo, Keun Tae Kim, Tae-Won Yang, Woo-Jin Lee, Hye-Jin Moon, Dong Wook Kim, Byung Chan Lim, Yong Won Cho, Tae-Ho Yang, Hee Jin Kim, Young-Soo Kim, Yong Seo Koo, Byeongsu Park, Keun-Hwa Jung, Manho Kim, Kyung-Il Park, Ki-Young Jung, Kon Chu, Sang Kun Lee
OBJECTIVE: There is no scale for rating the severity of autoimmune encephalitis (AE). In this study, we aimed to develop a novel scale for rating severity in patients with diverse AE syndromes and to verify the reliability and validity of the developed scale. METHODS: The key items were generated by a panel of experts and selected according to content validity ratios. The developed scale was initially applied to 50 patients with AE (development cohort) to evaluate its acceptability, reproducibility, internal consistency, and construct validity...
March 2019: Annals of Neurology