Table 3.

Clinical outcome of TBI patients at admission and after follow-up.

Variables	Long-hospital stay group	Telemonitoring group	Long-hospital stay group	Telemonitoring group	Statistical analysis (p-level)
					Between group*		Within group§
	Baseline	Baseline	Follow-up	Follow-up	Baseline	Follow-up	Long-hospital stay group	Telemonitoring group
CRS-r	9.2 ± 3.8 8.5 (4–16)	10.8 ± 5.1 10 (4–21)	9.2 ± 5.1 8 (4–19)	12.4 ± 6.1 11 (4–23)	0.48	0.31	0.99	0.08
NCS	4.9 ± 2 4 (3–9)	5.8 ± 2.9 5.5 (2–10)	4.9 ± 2.5 4 (2–10)	6.3 ± 3.9 6 (2–11)	0.44	0.22	0.91	0.06
WHIM	20.5 ± 14.2 18.5 (7–41)	18.1 ± 12.2 19 (3–53)	22.5 ± 19.3 17.5 (7–60)	14.3 ± 8.4 16 (3–25)	0.65	0.29	0.71	0.33
LCF	2.4 ± 0.5 2 (2–3)	2.6 ± 0.5 3 (2–3)	2.6 ± 1.1 2 (2–5)	2.5 ± 0.5 2.5 (2–3)	0.35	0.81	0.31	0.99

Data are shown as mean ± SD and median (range). CRS-r, Coma Recovery Scale-revised; NCS, Nociception Coma Scale; WHIM, Wessex Head Injury Matrix; LCF, level of cognitive functioning.

^*Mann-Whitney U Test.

^§Wilcoxon W test.

Data expressed as median (range) are reported in italic.