Table 4.
Percentage of patients whose revised GCS category differed from the standard GCS category, by age decile—validation set
| ED GCS (%) | 10–19 | 20s | 30s | 40s | 50s | 60s | 70s | 80s |
| 3 (3.28) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 4 (0.36) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 5 (0.35) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 6 (0.79) | 0.85% | 1.04% | 1.03% | – | – | – | – | – |
| 7 (0.88) | 0.99% | 1.46% | 1.20% | 0.86% | – | – | – | – |
| 8 (0.84) | 0.86% | 1.17% | 0.96% | 0.94% | – | – | – | – |
| 9 (0.81) | – | – | – | – | – | 0.71% | 0.60% | 0.77% |
| 10 (1.03) | 0.79% | – | – | – | – | 1.04% | 0.99% | 1.19% |
| 11 (1.26) | 1.33% | 1.27% | 1.18% | – | – | – | 1.16% | 1.33% |
| 12 (1.62) | 1.34% | 1.73% | 1.84% | 1.71% | – | – | 1.40% | 1.68% |
| 13 (3.48) | – | – | – | – | – | 3.34% | 3.09% | 3.54% |
| 14 (15.43) | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16.08% | 19.23% |
| 15 (69.87) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Overall | 6.16% | 6.67% | 6.21% | 3.51% | 0.00% | 5.10% | 23.33% | 27.73% |
The ‘–’ indicates the standard GCS category and revised GCS category overlapped; thus, the GCS revision did not affect patients in that combination of age decade and GCS score.
ED, emergency department; GCS, Glasgow Coma Scale.