Inter-rater reliability of the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness score and the Glasgow Coma Scale in critically ill patients: A prospective observational study

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Fischer, Michael ^a   Rüegg, Stephan ^a   Czaplinski, Adam ^a   Strohmeier, Monika ^a   Lehmann, Angelika ^a   Tschan, Franziska ^b   Hunziker, Patrick R ^a   Marsch, Stephan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FULL OUTLINE OF UNRESPONSIVENESS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; SWITZERLAND; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77950663443     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8963     Document Type: Article

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