Differences in mortality predictions between injury severity score triplets: A significant flaw

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1321-1324

  Russell, Robert ^a,c   Halcomb, Elizabeth ^b   Caldwell, Erica ^b   Sugrue, Michael ^b  

^a Royal Centre for Defence Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^b LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Royal Army Medical Corps   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Injury Severity Score; Trauma; Trauma scoring

Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE TRIPLET; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3142548819     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000062763.21379.D9     Document Type: Article

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