Has TRISS become an anachronism? A comparison of mortality between the National Trauma Data Bank and Major Trauma Outcome Study databases

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 326-331

  Rogers, Frederick B ^a   Osler, Turner ^c   Krasne, Margaret ^a   Rogers, Amelia ^a   Bradburn, Eric H ^a   Lee, John C ^a   Wu, Daniel ^a   McWilliams, Nathan ^b   Horst, Michael A ^a  

^a LANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Pennsylvania Trauma Syst Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

MTOS; NTDB; TRISS

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL PRACTITIONER DATA BANK; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMA AND INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PENNSYLVANIA; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864611430     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31825a7758     Document Type: Article

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