Citation

Kingma J. Percept. Mot. Skills 1995; 80(1): 105-106.

Affiliation

Department of Traumatology, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7624179

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.

Language: en