The differential mortality of Glasgow Coma Score in patients with and without head injury

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• 作者：Turner Osler^a ; ^{tosler@uvm.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Alan Cook^b ; ^c ; ^{alan.cook@dignityhealth.org" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Laurent G. Glance^d ; ^{Laurent_glance@umc.rochester.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Fiona Lecky^e ; ^f ; ^{fiona.lecky@manchester.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Omar Bouamra^f ; ^{omar.bouamra@manchester.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Mark Garrett^g ; ^{mark.garrett@bnaneuro.net" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Jeffery S. Buzas^h ; ^{jbuzas@uvm.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; David W. Hosmerⁱ ; ^{hosmer@schoolph.umass.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Glasgow Coma Score ; Traumatic brain injury ; Mortality ; Logistic
• 刊名：Injury
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：47
• 期：9
• 页码：1879-1885
• 全文大小：323 K

文摘

The GCS was created forty years ago as a measure of impaired consciousness following head injury and thus the association of GCS with mortality in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) is expected. The association of GCS with mortality in patients without TBI (non-TBI) has been assumed to be similar. However, if this assumption is incorrect mortality prediction models incorporating GCS as a predictor will need to be revised.

Objective

To determine if the association of GCS with mortality is influenced by the presence of TBI.

Design/setting/participants

Using the National Trauma Data Bank (2012; N = 639,549) we categorized patients as isolated TBI (12.8%), isolated non-TBI (33%), both (4.8%), or neither (49.4%) based on the presence of AIS codes of severity 3 or greater. We compared the ability GCS to discriminate survivors from non-survivors in TBI and in non-TBI patients using logistic models. We also estimated the odds ratios of death for TBI and non-TBI patients at each value of GCS using linear combinations of coefficients.

Main outcome measure

Death during hospital admission.

Results

As the sole predictor in a logistic model GCS discriminated survivors from non-survivors at an acceptable level (c-statistic = 0.76), but discriminated better in the case of TBI patients (c-statistic = 0.81) than non-TBI patients (c-statistic = 0.70). In both unadjusted and covariate adjusted models TBI patients were about twice as likely to die as non-TBI patients with the same GCS for GCS values < 8; for GCS values > 8 TBI and non-TBI patients were at similar risk of dying.

Conclusions

A depressed GCS predicts death better in TBI patients than non-TBI patients, likely because in non-TBI patients a depressed GCS may simply be the result of entirely reversible intoxication by alcohol or drugs; in TBI patients, by contrast, a depressed GCS is more ominous because it is likely due to a head injury with its attendant threat to survival. Accounting for this observation into trauma mortality datasets and models may improve the accuracy of outcome prediction.