Feasibility of the Neurological Outcome Scale for Traumatic Brain Injury (NOS-TBI) in adults.

ABSTRACT: This article describes the design and initial implementation of the Neurological Outcome Scale for Traumatic Brain Injury (NOS-TBI) as an adaptation of the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), specifically for clinical and research use in patients with TBI, including (1) the addition of items specific to TBI, (2) adjustment to the scoring algorithm to allow quantification of deficits in patients who are comatose/vegetative or agitated, and (3) the reassignment of items (i.e., limb ataxia) that are problematic in TBI as supplemental items. The feasibility of using the NOS-TBI is discussed and limitations of the scale are highlighted. This scale offers (1) a cost-effective, brief, practicable, standardized, and quantifiable method of communicating and analyzing neurological de

SUBMITTER: Wilde EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2943506 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature