Validity of Glasgow outcome scale-extended (GOSE) mobile application for assessment of outcome in traumatic brain injury patients

ABSTRACT

Purpose

To develop the Glasgow Outcome Scale-Extended (GOSE) mobile application and examine the validity of the application against GOSE scoring based on traditional interview method.

Methods

Concurrent validity was determined by comparing two independent raters’ scoring for GOSE of 102 patients with traumatic brain injury, who had attended outpatient department of a tertiary neuro hospital. Agreement was assessed between the traditional interview-based pen and paper scoring and algorithm based mobile application scoring of GOSE.

Results

Agreement was tested using Cohen’s kappa, and the analysis revealed near perfect agreement between two raters (0.89) (p < 0.01).

Conclusion

The GOSE mobile application can measure GOSE Score similar to the traditional interview method. This application may help fasten the process of assessing outcome in TBI patients in clinical practice and in research.

KEYWORDS:

• Glasgow outcome scale-extended
• traumatic brain injury
• validity
• mobile application
• digital health

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the patients and their families who were involved in the study.

Disclosure statement

The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Statement on ethical issues

The Institute ethics committee has approved the protocol for the study. Approval number : NIM/BEH.SC.DIV.MEETNG/21. Written informed consent was obtained from participants.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, [Priya Baby], upon reasonable request.

Additional information

Funding

No research relevant to this study was funded.