Statistical validation of the revised trauma score

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 305-311

  Moore, Lynne ^a   Lavoie, André ^b   LeSage, Natalie ^a   Abdous, Belkacem ^b   Bergeron, Eric ^c   Liberman, Moishe ^d   Emond, Marcel ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CANADA; CASE MIX; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FRACTIONAL POLYNOMIAL TRANSFORMATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; MODEL FIT; MORTALITY; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGISTER; RESEARCH; REVISED TRAUMA SCORE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VALIDATION PROCESS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING; CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUEBEC; REGISTRIES; RESPIRATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33646100328     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000200840.89685.b0     Document Type: Article

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