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Default Handling of the Non-Assessable Verbal Glasgow Coma Scale Misclassifies Illness Severity in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: A Retrospective Analysis

2026-06-23

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<h4>Background</h4> The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is the intensive care unit’s universal neurologic severity score and is embedded in the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA), risk-adjusted mortality models, and ICU benchmarking. In the mechanically ventilated patient the verbal component cannot be obtained, and the conventions used to fill that gap...

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Literature Corpus work: 905aa718-0f18-588a-8c8f-71dc73f7a674
DOI: 10.64898/2026.06.20.26356135

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