Predictive Value of the Disorders of Consciousness Scale (DOCS)

Abstract

For persons with prolonged disorders of consciousness, the findings indicate that evidence-based prognostication for individual patients is possible. The implications for research are that the DOCS can be used as a meaningful, reliable, and valid primary outcome to measure treatment effects in clinical trials. The evidence indicates further that DOCS measures merit inclusion in future research that aims to develop multivariate prognostication models.