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Glasgow Outcome Scale

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Glasgow Outcome Scale,
a functional assessment inventory based on five global categories: death, persistent vegetative state, severe disability, moderate disability, and good recovery. It measures outcome. It has been criticized as lacking sensitivity to functionally significant changes.


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Structured interviews for the Glasgow Outcome Scale and the extended Glasgow Outcome Scale: Guidelines for their use.
Measuring stroke survivors' functional status independence: five ... by Shih, Min-Mei; Rogers, Joan C.; Skidmore, Elizabeth R.; Irrgang, James J.; Holm, Margo B. / AJOT: American Journal of Occupational Therapy
Follow-up assessment periods may be too brief, because it increasingly appears that Glasgow Outcome Scale scores improve greatly over time, but at a very slow pace, he said.
Brain trauma trials may finally be paying off by Bates, Betsy / Clinical Psychiatry News
The Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) score on discharge from the hospital and again 3 months later, the length of stay in the NICU, the time required for blood clot lysis, the length of draining time, the development of any procedure-related or treatment-related complications, the need for inserting a permanent ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt system, and, finally, the total length of hospitalization were all documented.
Intraventricular administration of rt-PA in patients with ... by Robinson, J.S. / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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