Development and external validation of a new PTA assessment scale

BMC Neurology

Table 1 The combined PTA questionnaire administered to participants; a composite of items from existing PTA scales

Questionnaire	GOAT	WPTAS	R-WPTAS	MOPTAS
Reference	[17]	[19]	[20]	[18]
01. Name	√
02. Age		√	√	√
03. Date of birth	√	√	√	√
04. Residence	√
05. Marital status				√
06. Children				√
07. Occupation				√
08. Recognition face examiner		√	√	√
09. Recall name examiner		√		√
10. Kind of place	√			√
11. Name of place		√	√	√
12. City of hospital	√
13. Date of admittance	√
14. Mode of transport	√
15. Last memory preceding injury	√			√
16. First memory following injury	√			√
17. Period of day		√	√
18. Time of day	√
19. Day of week	√	√		√
20. Date	√
21. Month of year	√	√	√	√
22. Year	√	√	√	√
23. 3-item memory test		√	√	√
Maximum Score	100	12	10	15
Criterion – PTA present (disease positive)	≤ 75	≤ 11	≤ 9	≤ 14

PTA = post-traumatic amnesia; GOAT = Galveston Orientation and Amnesia Test; WPTAS = Westmead PTA scale; R-WPTAS = revised Westmead PTA scale; MOPTAS = modified Oxford PTA scale.

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