Is the Kampala Trauma Score an effective predictor of mortality in low-resource settings? A comparison of multiple trauma severity scores

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1905-1911

  Weeks, Sharon R ^a   Juillard, Catherine J ^b   Monono, Martin E ^c   Etoundi, Georges A ^d   Ngamby, Marquise K ^e   Hyder, Adnan A ^f   Stevens, Kent A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d YAOUNDÉ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

^e Ministry of Health   (Cameroon)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAMEROON; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903774635     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-014-2496-0     Document Type: Article

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