Disability Rating Scale (DRS, Brain Injury)
Totals the Disability Rating Scale (0 to 29) after a moderate or severe traumatic brain injury, from coma to community.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Eye opening
- 0: Spontaneous
- Best communication ability
- 1: Confused
- Best motor response
- 0: Obeying
- Cognitive ability for feeding
- 1: Partial
- Cognitive ability for toileting
- 1: Partial
- Cognitive ability for grooming
- 1: Partial
- Level of functioning
- 3: Moderately dependent
- Employability
- 3: Not employable
Result: DRS 10 of 29: moderately severe disability.
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What you enter
- Eye opening
- Best communication ability
- Best motor response
- Cognitive ability for feeding
- Cognitive ability for toileting
- Cognitive ability for grooming
- Level of functioning
- Employability
How this is calculated
Citation
Rappaport M, Hall KM, Hopkins K, Belleza T, Cope DN. Disability rating scale for severe head trauma: coma to community. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 1982;63(3):118-123. Item definitions and categories: Center for Outcome Measurement in Brain Injury (COMBI). Read the sources: Rappaport 1982 ↗, COMBI DRS ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.