Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
5 years ago

Improvement on the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised during the first four weeks of hospital stay predicts outcome at discharge in intensive rehabilitation after severe brain injury.

Elena Lippi, Claudio Macchi, Antonello Grippo, Martina Di Renzone, Bahia Hakiki, Emilio Portaccio, Anna Maria Romoli, Azzurra Morrocchesi, Maria Pia Taglioli
to evaluate the prognostic utility of serial assessment on the Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) during the first 4 weeks of intensive rehabilitation in patients surviving from severe brain injury DESIGN: prospective cohort study PARTICIPANTS: Patients consecutively admitted to the Intensive Rehabilitation Unit at the IRCCS Don Gnocchi Foundation (Florence, Italy). Inclusion criteria were diagnosis of unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS) or minimally conscious state (MCS) due to acquired brain injury, age older than 18 years.

Publisher URL: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.apmr.2018.01.015

DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2018.01.015

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