Name Steward Organization Suggested Domain Suggested Domain Description Cde Group Classification
King's Outcome Scale for Childhood Head Injury (KOSCHI) - prognosis category NINDS Health outcomes
Patient and caregiver health outcomes
NIH CDEs
  • NINDS
    • Disease
      • Stroke
        • Classification
          • Supplemental
        • Domain
          • Outcomes and End Points
            • Pediatric
    • Domain
      • Outcomes and End Points
        • Pediatric
    • Population
      • Pediatric

# Datatype
Value List

# Permissible value Value meaning name Value meaning definition
1 Death Death
2 Vegetative Vegetative
3a Severe Disability (Child may be fully conscious and able to communicate but unable to carry out any self-care activities) Severe Disability (Child may be fully conscious and able to communicate but unable to carry out any self-care activities)
3b Severe Disability (Child has a continuing high level of dependency but can assist in daily activities) 4a=Moderate Disability (Child is mostly independent but needs a degree of supervision/actual help for physical and behavioral problems) Severe Disability (Child has a continuing high level of dependency but can assist in daily activities) 4a=Moderate Disability (Child is mostly independent but needs a degree of supervision/actual help for physical and behavioral problems)
4b Moderate Disability (Child is age-appropriately independent but has residual problems with learning/behavior or neurological sequelae affecting function) Moderate Disability (Child is age-appropriately independent but has residual problems with learning/behavior or neurological sequelae affecting function)
5a Good recovery (Only assigned if child's head injury has resulted in a new condition which does not interfere with the child's well being and/or functioning) Good recovery (Only assigned if child's head injury has resulted in a new condition which does not interfere with the child's well being and/or functioning)
5b Good recovery (Implies that the information available is that the child has made a complete recovery with no detectable sequelae from the head injury) Good recovery (Implies that the information available is that the child has made a complete recovery with no detectable sequelae from the head injury)

# Definition
The category that best describes the child's prognosis by the King's Outcome Scale for Childhood Head Injury (KOSCHI), which is a specific pediatric adaptation of the original adult Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS).

# Designation
King's Outcome Scale for Childhood Head Injury (KOSCHI) - prognosis category

# Identifier Origin Version
3g0e65D6uwA NLM CDEs 12-02-2025-download
C13231 NINDS 3
KOSCHIProgCat BRICS Variable Name N/A