Contact Mr. Ben Dirlikov, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center at
Citation Rappaport, M. (2000). The Coma/Near Coma Scale. The Center for Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury. http://www.tbims.org/ combi/cnc ( accessed
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CNC Training & Testing
For New Raters While one person does the testing, 2, 3 or more observers rate each item independently. Afterwards discuss ratings. If a rating is changed, leave the initial rating but place changed rating in parenthesis next to it. Repeat this process on 5 to 10 patients or until raters train themselves to place patients in the same category range. Thereafter single ratings can be used but, for purposes of reliability, a minimum of two independent ratings per patient is encouraged.
Under "Comments" record special information that may have had an extraordinary effect on the ratings on a given day.
A project funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.