Contact Jerry
Wright, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center at
Citation Wright, J. (2000). The
Glasgow Outcome Scale. The Center for Outcome Measurement
in Brain Injury. http://www.tbims.org/
combi/gos ( accessed
).*
*Note:
This citation is for the COMBI web material. Mr. Wright is
not the scale author for the GOS.
GOS
Properties
GOS
AND DRS COMPARISONS
GOS
DRS
1
30
2
29-22
3
21-8
4
5-3
5
3-0
CLINICAL
EXAMPLE OF TWO CASES IN THE SAME GOS CATEGORY
GOS=3
DRS=8
GOS=3
DRS=21
spontaneous
eye opening
eye
opening if spoken to
confused
x1
no
communication
obeys
obeys
simple commands
initiates
and eats independently
no
awareness of feeding
has
bladder accidents occasionally
no
awareness of how and when to toilet self
initiates
and completes grooming
no
awareness of grooming
takes
care of self partially, needs another person in the home
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