Abbreviated Injury Scale Does Not Reflect the Added Morbidity of Multiple Lower Extremity Fractures

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 951-954

  Poole, Galen V ^a,b   Tinsley, Marjolyn ^a   Tsao, Audrey K ^b   Thomae, Keith R ^a   Martin, Reginald W ^a   Hauser, Carl J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEG FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; TISSUE INJURY;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 0029895207     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199606000-00014     Document Type: Article

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