@article{ref1,
title="The Glasgow Outcome at Discharge Scale: An inpatient assessment of disability after head injury",
journal="Journal of neurotrauma",
year="2013",
author="McMillan, Tom and Weir, Christopher J. and Ireland, Alaister and Stewart, Elaine",
volume="30",
number="11",
pages="970-974",
abstract="This study assesses the validity and reliability of the Glasgow Outcome at Discharge Scale (GODS), which is a tool that is designed to assess disability after head injury in an inpatient setting. It is derived from the Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended (GOS-E), which assesses disability in the community after head injury. Inter-rater reliability on the GODS is high (quadratic-weighted kappa 0.982; 95% CI 0.968, 0.996) as is concurrent validity with the Disability Rating Scale (Spearman correlation -0.728; 95% CI -0.819, -0.601). The GODS is significantly associated with physical and fatigue sub-scales of the SF-36 in hospital. In terms of predictive validity the GODS is highly associated with the GOS-E after discharge (Spearman correlation 0.512; 95% CI 0.281, 0.687), with the DRS and with physical, fatigue and social sub-scales of the SF-36. The GODS is recommended as an assessment tool for disability after head injury pre-discharge and can be used in conjunction with the GOS-E to monitor disability between hospital and the community.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0897-7151",
doi="10.1089/neu.2012.2703",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/neu.2012.2703"
}