Clinicians Find the Glasgow Coma Scale to Be Valuable Mainly

question 7

Multiple Choice

Clinicians find the Glasgow Coma Scale to be valuable mainly because:

• A)It can predict the probability of someone lapsing into a coma
• B)It is able to predict survival rates and future functioning
• C)It can measure the degree of focal versus distributed damage
• D)It assesses pupil reactivity as a proxy for brainstem damage

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Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that represents a distribution of values, means, or variables symmetrically clustered around the mean.

Observation

The action or process of closely monitoring or noting phenomena as they occur in a systematic manner for data collection.

Chi-square Statistic

A measure used in statistics to evaluate how well observed data fit expected outcomes under a specific hypothesis, often related to categorical data.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution.