The injury severity score or the new injury severity score for predicting mortality, intensive care unit admission and length of hospital stay: Experience from a university hospital in a developing country

Injury

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 115-120

  Tamim, Hala ^a   Al Hazzouri, Adina Zeki ^b   Mahfoud, Ziad ^b   Atoui, Maria ^b   El Chemaly, Souheil ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Developing country; ISS; NISS; Trauma outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE; LEBANON; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 37549005589     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2007.06.007     Document Type: Article

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