British hospitals and different versions of the Glasgow coma scale: telephone survey

British hospitals and different versions of the Glasgow coma scale: telephone survey.

Two thirds of families gave telephone consent to blood, lymph node, and liver samples being taken at postmortem examination and used as control samples in a study designed to validate tests for viral markers. The negative effect of media attention on postmortem retention of organ and tissues was small. The results compare with a 98.8% consent rate for use of surplus tissue in research among sur...

Adoption of Glasgow Coma Scale in the British Isles.

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The Prognostic Value of Admission Glasgow Coma Scale and AVPU in Acute Drug Poisoning Patients

Path dependence and the persistence of the Glasgow Coma Scale.

Glasgow Coma Scale Scoring is Often Inaccurate.

INTRODUCTION The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is widely applied in the emergency setting; it is used to guide trauma triage and for the application of essential interventions such as endotracheal intubation. However, inter-rater reliability of GCS scoring has been shown to be low for inexperienced users, especially for the motor component. Concerns regarding the accuracy and validity of GCS scoring...