Assessing the performance and clinical impact of a computerized prognostic system in severe head injury.
The ability to predict outcome in the early stages of severe head injury would have several uses. A computerized system which has been developed in Glasgow to assist clinicians in this task, based on information from over 2500 severely head-injured patients, is described, with particular attention to the testing of the statistical properties of the system, and, more importantly, the assessment of its clinical impact.
D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D011379:Prognosis