Multi‐organ dysfunction scoring in neonatal encephalopathy (MODE Score) and neurodevelopmental outcomes

Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) is associated with an increased risk of multi-organ injury. The lack of standardised definitions for multi-organ dysfunction in NE hinders accurate quantification of these complications.A simple multi-organ dysfunction in neonatal encephalopathy scoring (MODE) system was created to include the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, haematological and neurological systems with a maximum score of 15. The MODE...