The use of medical scoring, staging and grading systems can enhanceclinical judgment and favorably influence patient outcome.Medical errors can be reduced by the sharing of medical informationand the correct application of medical information. A wealth of medicalinformation exists in the form of published medical scoring. These scoringrepresent a summary of medical research.Despite the large number of scoring systems present in the literature,many are not widely used or are underutilized. Barriers to the utilization ofscoring systems include inaccuracies in formulas or data due to transcriptionerrors, misunderstandings concerning appropriate units for data or results,confusion over representation of percentages and influence of extremes inage.