TIL: the Apgar Score

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“In 1952, tired of seeing MDs deem premature babies too weak to survive and allowing them to die, she introduced the Apgar score, a ten-point measure of a neonate’s breathing, heart rate, complexion, reflexes, and muscular activity, gathered at one and five minutes after birth. Its spread into medical practice has saved hundreds of thousands of lives and raised our awareness of the costs of premature births”

--- Dacher Keltner. “The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence.”

To make it actionable, she introduced relevant dimensions and their quantification.
Also see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3712619/

Comments

[chuka_lis]

да, полезная оказалась шкала.