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Severity of injuries in trauma patients
1Department of Traumatology, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
Perceptual and Motor Skills
|February 1, 1995
Abstract:
The present purpose was to illustrate the range of severity scores among trauma patients. A computerized conversion of ICD-9CM injury diagnoses into scores for severity of injury was processed on data of 36,178 trauma patients. More than 94% of the patients had injuries of minor severity. The probability of mortality was .67 when the Injury Severity Score (ISS) was > or = 16.