Multicenter Validation of the Survival After Acute Civilian Penetrating Brain Injuries (SPIN) Score.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Civilian penetrating traumatic brain injury (pTBI) is a serious public health problem in the United States, but predictors of outcome remain largely understudied. We previously developed the Survival After Acute Civilian Penetrating Brain Injuries (SPIN) score, a logistic, regression-based risk stratification scale for estimating in-hospital and 6-mo survival after civilian pTBI with excellent discrimination (area under the receiver operating curve [AUC-ROC = 0.96]) and calibration, but it has not been validated.

Objective

To validate the SPIN score in a multicenter cohort.

Methods

We identified pTBI patients from 3 United States level-1 trauma centers. The SPIN score variables (motor Glasgow Coma Scale [mGCS], sex, admission pupillary reactivity, self-infl

SUBMITTER: Mikati AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6904849 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature