Overhaul of TBI Classification Is Explored

Dr. Manley and his colleagues were recently awarded a National Institutes of Health Grand Opportunities Challenge Grant to pilot this effort. The global goal is to develop, test, and refine standards for data collection in TBI studies in a multicenter observational study of 1,000 patients at high-volume TBI centers, including UCSF; the University of Pittsburgh; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York; and Seton Hospital in Austin, Tex. Dr. Andrew Maas, of University Hospital Antwerp, Brussels, is leading a European group of TBI investigators that also will be contributing to this effort.

“If we really want to transform TBI research, we're going to have to work in multidisciplinary teams,” Dr. Manley concluded. “We need this infrastructure. We need the appropriate collaboration and tools.”

Dr. Manley had no relevant financial conflicts of interest to disclose.

The Glasgow Coma Scale was developed 'before the advent of CT scans, so this is a very old system that we're using.'

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