War-related traumatic brain injuries during the Syrian armed conflict in Damascus 2014–2017: a cohort study and a literature review

Table 4 Mortality during admission and neurological deficits at discharge among surgery and GCS groups

GCS^a	Surgery	Total number	Mortality during admission [n (%)]	P value^c	Discharge deficit [n (%)]	P value^c
Severe^b	Yes	13	8 (61.5)	0.047	4 (80.0)	0.292
	No	38	33 (86.8)		5 (100.0)
Moderate	Yes	11	3 (27.3)	0.498	6 (75.0)	0.035
	No	23	9 (39.1)		4 (28.6)
Mild	Yes	32	2 (6.3)	0.658	13 (43.3)	0.070
	No	71	3 (4.2)		17 (25.0)
Total	Yes	56	13 (23.2)	0.140	23 (53.5)	0.009
	No	132	45 (34.1)		26 (29.9)

^a GCS: Glasgow coma score at admission
^b The seven patients who scored three on the GCS were excluded from the whole analysis because none of them underwent surgery (and all of them died), leaving only 188 patients for the analysis of this table
^c Chi square test

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