title: Monitoring prognosis in severe traumatic brain injury.
abstract: The choice of disease-specific versus generic scales is common to many fields of medicine. In the area of traumatic brain injury, evidence is coming forward that disease-specific prognostic models and disease-specific scoring systems are preferable in the intensive care setting. In monitoring prognosis, the use of a calibration belt in validation studies potentially provides accurate and intuitively attractive insight into performance. This approach deserves further empirical evaluation of its added value as well as its limitations.
authors.forename: Andrew I R
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Maas
authors.forename: Ewout W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Steyerberg
mesh_terms: D018806:APACHE; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000401:mortality*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000639:trends*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000639:trends*; D008297:Male; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices