Brain injury : [BI]
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Brain injury : [BI] · Jun 2007
ReviewEvaluation of models that predict short-term outcome after traumatic brain injury.
This study aimed to identify models that predicted the short-term outcome after traumatic brain injury (TBI) from the literature and to evaluate their clinical significance. ⋯ Most of the models included in this study have a good discriminatory power while lacking sufficient calibration. However, they all predict with relative accuracy at the level of individuals. Therefore, current models can be used to predict the survival rate of individual patients and may be useful to inform patients and relatives about the likelihood of a beneficial outcome.