• Postgraduate medicine · Jun 1992

    Predicting outcome in brain-injured patients. Using the Glasgow Coma Scale in primary care practice.

    • J S Oppenheim and M B Camins.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, City University of New York, NY 10029.
    • Postgrad Med. 1992 Jun 1; 91 (8): 261-4, 267-8.

    AbstractThe Glasgow Coma Scale provides a quick and simple way to assess the level of consciousness of a brain-injured patient and to predict that patient's social outcome. The information provided by such prediction of prognosis can help primary care physicians choose the appropriate therapeutic regimen and also allows investigators to compare alternative regimens.

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