Executive summary Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has the highest incidence of all common
neurological disorders, and poses a substantial public health burden. TBI is increasingly …

This review of the literature on traumatic brain injury (TBI) in older adults focuses on incident
TBI sustained in older adulthood (“geriatric TBI”) rather than on the separate, but related …

When the fourth edition of the Brain Trauma Foundation's Guidelines for the Management of
Severe Traumatic Brain Injury were finalized in late 2016, it was known that the results of the …

Objectives: Explain the value of the Glasgow Coma Scale for patient care. Outline the three
areas the Glascow Coma Scales assesses. Summarize the severity findings for each range …

Summary Since 1974, the Glasgow Coma Scale has provided a practical method for
bedside assessment of impairment of conscious level, the clinical hallmark of acute brain …

Background Several studies have reported an association between serum biomarker values
and functional outcome following traumatic brain injury. We aimed to examine the …

Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is increasingly recognised as being responsible for
a substantial proportion of the global burden of disease. Neurosurgical interventions are an …

Abstract The Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) was first published in 1975 by Bryan Jennett
and Michael Bond. With over 4,000 citations to the original paper, it is the most highly cited …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a critical public health and socio-economic problem
throughout the world. Reliable quantification of the burden caused by TBI is difficult owing to …

In this article, the third in the PROGRESS series on prognostic factor research, Sara Schroter
and colleagues review how prognostic models are developed and validated, and then …