title: ["Score systems as a measure for quality assurance in polytrauma?"].
abstract: Score systems in trauma try to aggregate the severity of injury in a single number of formula. They give a common basis to standardize logistics and outcome in trauma management. This holds true only if the score is valid, reliable, and based on a meticulous documentation of data. As errors cannot be excluded, individual decisions in trauma management can never rely on scores alone.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Katharinenhospital, Stuttgart.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Holz
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000145:classification* / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D017749:Total Quality Management
vernacular_title: "Score-Systeme als Mass für Qualitätssicherung beim Polytrauma?"