Improving the TRISS Methodology by Restructuring Age Categories and Adding Comorbidities

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 760-767

  Bergeron, Eric ^a,b   Rossignol, Michel ^a   Osler, Turner ^d   Clas, David ^b   Lavoie, Andre ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL CHARLES LEMOYNE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d Hôpital Charles LeMoyne ^*

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Modeling; Prognosis; Trauma; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGISTER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL;

EID: 2042423930     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000119199.52226.C0     Document Type: Article

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