title: The Application of the CRASH-CT Prognostic Model for Older Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury: A Population-Based Observational Cohort Study.
abstract: To examine the performance of the Corticosteroid Randomization After Significant Head injury (CRASH) trial prognostic model in older patients with traumatic brain injury.
  
  
  
  The National Study on Costs and Outcomes of Trauma cohort, established at 69 hospitals in the United States in 2001 and 2002.
  
  
  
  Adults with traumatic brain injury and an initial Glasgow Coma Scale score of 14 or less.
  
  
  
  The CRASH-CT model predicting death within 14 days was deployed in all patients. Model performance in older patients (aged 65-84 years) was compared with that in younger patients (aged 18-64 years).
  
  
  
  Model discrimination (as defined by the c-statistic) and calibration (as defined by the Hosmer-Lemeshow P value).
  
  
  
  CRASH-CT model discrimination was not significantly different between the older (n = 356; weighted n = 524) and younger patients (n = 981; weighted n = 2602) and was generally adequate (c-statistic 0.83 vs 0.87, respectively; P = .11). CRASH-CT model calibration was adequate for the older patients and inadequate for younger patients (Hosmer-Lemeshow P values .12 and .001, respectively), possibly reflecting differences in sample size. Calibration-in-the-large showed no systematic under- or overprediction in either stratum.
  
  
  
  The CRASH-CT model may be valid for use in a geriatric population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine (Drs Staples and Zaros), School of Public Health (Dr Mills), Department of Neurological Surgery (Dr Temkin), and Department of Pediatrics (Dr Rivara), University of Washington, Seattle; Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center, Seattle, Washington (Drs Staples, Wang, and Rivara and Ms Mills); and Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver (Dr Jurkovich).
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Staples
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Brianna
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mills
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Temkin
authors.forename: Mark C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Zaros
authors.forename: Gregory J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Jurkovich
authors.forename: Frederick P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Rivara
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000070642:Brain Injuries, Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D015600:Glasgow Coma Scale; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011379:Prognosis; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D055815:Young Adult