| Clinical signs | Score |
| Mental status | |
| Normal | 0 |
| Sleepy but arousable, decreased feeding | 1 |
| Lethargic, poor suck, irritable, and/or jittery | 2 |
| Semicomatose to comatose, unable to feed, seizures | 3 |
| Muscle tone | |
| Normal | 0 |
| Persistent mild to moderate hypotonia | 1 |
| Mild to moderate hypertonia alternating with hypotonia | 2 |
| Persistent retrocollis and opisthotonos | 3 |
| Cry pattern | |
| Normal | 0 |
| High pitched when aroused | 1 |
| Shrill, difficult to console | 2 |
| Inconsolable crying or weak/absent cry | 3 |
| Total BIND score | |
Total scores for BIND determine the presence and severity of acute bilirubin encephalopathy (ABE) for newborns with hyperbilirubinemia without other identifiable causes for neurologic dysfunction.
Interpretation of the BIND score is as follows: