title: Utility of the injury severity score: a confirmation.
abstract: Independent results obtained from Illinois Trauma Registry data confirm an earlier finding of a fixed, monotonic relationship between expected mortality and the Injury Severity Score (ISS) value of injuries sustained in both vehicular and nonvehicular incidents. Further results show the ISS measure to be a good indicator of hospitalization demand from accident victims and suggest that this variable can be used to control for variations in injury severity in comparative evaluations of EMS systems.
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D007902:Length of Stay; D012042:Registries; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000401:mortality* / Q000601:surgery