The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is the most widely used method for evaluation of coma, but it has a number of shortcomings, including limited utility in intubated patients and an inability to assess ...

A number of the studies included in this review used descriptive analyses in reporting the relationship between specific GCS scores and certain outcome categories (Bishara et al., 1992 ...

A review of the research findings on the predictive ability of the GCS provides for identification of future areas of research. Based on the above review, one such area of needed research is to ...