Multicenter Comparison of the Predictive Value of the Revised Trauma Score and the Glasgow Coma Scale

Statistical Validation of the Glasgow Coma Score

“…Indeed, one study of a small Canadian population of 912 patients found that whereas V and M were the best predictors of mortality, E was the best predictor of the Functional Independence Measure, M and E were the best predictors of the Glasgow Outcome Scale and V and M were the best predictors of intensive care unit admission. 20 Finally, dropping V and E does not solve the problem of patients under the effect of medication, drugs or alcohol, for whom all three components of the GCS are affected or spinal cord-injured patients for whom the motor component is unjust.…”