Comparison of the three strategies of verbal scoring of the Glasgow Coma Scale in patients with stroke

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 79-85

  Prasad, Kameshwar ^a   Menon, Geetha R ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Glasgow Coma Scale; Logistic regression; Mortality; Receiver Operator Characteristic curve; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE; SURVIVAL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; EYE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031886968     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000015822     Document Type: Article

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