Specific abbreviated injury scale values are responsible for the underestimation of mortality in penetrating trauma patients by the injury severity score

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 2 SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages

  Rowell, Susan E ^a   Barbosa, Ronald R ^b   Diggs, Brian S ^a   Schreiber, Martin A ^a   The Trauma Outcomes Group, ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEGACY EMANUEL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Abbreviated Injury Scale; Injury Severity Score; Massive transfusion; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; BODY REGIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX INJURY;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80051737073     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182287c8d     Document Type: Article

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