An overview of the injury severity score and the new injury severity score

Injury Prevention

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 10-13

  Stevenson, Mark ^a   Segui Gomez, M ^a   Lescohier, I ^a   Di Scala, C ^b   McDonald Smith, G ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury severity score; New injury severity score; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0035293820     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.7.1.10     Document Type: Article

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