title: [Instruments for quality control in management of severely injured patients].
abstract: This article describes the most important scoring systems in trauma care and their application to quality control. Development and contents of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS), Injury Severity Score (ISS), Trauma Score (TS), Revised Trauma Score (RTS) and of the TRISS-method are described. The advantages and the limitations of the mentioned scoring systems are discussed critically.
authors.affiliation: Departement Chirurgie, Universitätsspital Zürich.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Serafini
authors.forename: P M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Lenzlinger
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gattiker
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Trentz
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kossmann
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000145:classification* / Q000601:surgery; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices