title: Severity of injuries in trauma patients.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Traumatology, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kingma
mesh_terms: D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted; D006801:Humans; D012720:Severity of Illness Index