Citation

Sacco WJ, Champion HR, Gainer PS, Morelli SA, Fallen S, Lawnick MA. Ann. Emerg. Med. 1984; 13(6): 415-418.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, American College of Emergency Physicians, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6731957

Abstract

The Trauma Score is a simple physiological measure of injury severity that has been shown to have a high correlation with mortality for blunt trauma patients. In this study, the Trauma Score was evaluated on two subsets of penetrating trauma patients. Results showed that the Trauma Score had a relative information gain of 0.83 and 0.87, an excellent rating in comparison with a possible perfect rating of 1.0. The Score had modest numbers of false negatives (13/64 for the design set, and 3/380 for the test set) and a low number of false positives (5/380 for the design set, and 3/380 for the test set). The Trauma Score is thus an accurate predictor of mortality for both blunt and penetrating trauma patients.