Table 1 Assessment categories and instruments
Assessment category | Instruments |
|---|---|
Sociodemographic factors | Age, gender, marital status, highest educational degree |
Comorbidity | |
Severity of illness | |
Prognostication tests | EEG, median-nerve somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP), NSE |
Activities of daily living (ADL) Outcome | Barthel index and the Barthel index for Early Rehabilitation (BI) [23–26]. |
• Level of consciousness | Coma recovery scale -revised (CRS-R) [11], Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) [27], Full outline of unresponsiveness (FOUR) [28] |
• Health status | Neurological post-acute Core Set of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) [29] |
• Cognitive functioning | Since the most commonly observed cognitive impairments in patients with an anoxic-ischemic brain injury are disturbances of attention/processing speed, memory, and executive function we use the subtests of the Cologne Neuropsychological Screening for Stroke Patients (German: Koelner Neuropsychologisches Screening für Schlaganfall-Patienten) for these functions [30, 31]. |
• Psychosocial Outcome | German version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D) [32–34]. |
• Quality of life | Short Form 36 (SF-36) Questionnaire (for patients as well as for closest care-providing relative) [35] |
• Life Satisfaction (LS) and satisfaction with decision making at the ICU | The LS of the patient and the closest care-providing person is measured by the “Question on Life Satisfaction (German: Fragen zur Lebenszufriedenheit-Module; FLZ-M) [36], and satisfaction with decision making at the ICU is measured with questions such as “in retrospective, I would have decided exactly the same on the ICU” using a 5-point scale. |
• Overall outcome | The modified Rankin scale (mRS) [37, 38], and the Cerebral Performance Category [39, 40] |