A modification of the injury severity score that both improves accuracy and simplifies scoring

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 922-926

  Osler, Turner ^a   Baker, Susan P ^b,c   Long, William ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c LEGACY EMANUEL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Given Building E 309 ^*

Author keywords

Injury Severity Score; Mortality; New Injury Severity Score; NISS; Prediction of survival; ROC analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031443990     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199712000-00009     Document Type: Article

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