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. 2019 Aug 15;36(16):2417-2422.
doi: 10.1089/neu.2018.6217. Epub 2019 Apr 23.

Prognosis of Six-Month Glasgow Outcome Scale in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Using Hospital Admission Characteristics, Injury Severity Characteristics, and Physiological Monitoring during the First Day Post-Injury

M Laura Rubin  1 , Jose-Miguel Yamal  2 , Wenyaw Chan  2 , Claudia S Robertson  3
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Prognosis of Six-Month Glasgow Outcome Scale in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Using Hospital Admission Characteristics, Injury Severity Characteristics, and Physiological Monitoring during the First Day Post-Injury

M Laura Rubin et al. J Neurotrauma. .

Abstract

Gold standard prognostic models for long-term outcome in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) use admission characteristics and are considered useful in some areas but not for clinical practice. In this study, we aimed to build prognostic models for 6-month Glasgow Outcome Score (GOS) in patients with severe TBI, combining baseline characteristics with physiological, treatment, and injury severity data collected during the first 24 h after injury. We used a training dataset of 472 TBI subjects and several data mining algorithms to predict the long-term neurological outcome. Performance of these algorithms was assessed in an independent (test) sample of 158 subjects. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) led to the highest prediction accuracy (area under the receiving operating characteristic curve = 0.86) in the test set. The most important post-baseline predictor of GOS was the best motor Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) recorded in the first day post-injury. The LASSO model containing the best motor GCS and baseline variables as predictors outperformed a model with baseline data only. TBI patient physiology of the first day-post-injury did not have a major contribution to patient prognosis six months after injury. In conclusion, 6-month GOS in patients with TBI can be predicted with good accuracy by the end of the first day post-injury, using hospital admission data and information on the best motor GCS achieved during those first 24 h post-injury. Passed the first day after injury, important physiological predictors could emerge from landmark analyses, leading to prediction models of higher accuracy than the one proposed in the current research.

Keywords: Glasgow Outcome Scale; first day post-injury; prognostic model; secondary injury; traumatic brain injury.

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FIG. 1.
Receiver operating characteristic curves for least absolute shrinkage and selection operator models built on different set of features. Best mGCS, best motor Glasgow Coma Scale.
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