Injury severity score inflation resulting from pan-computed tomography in patients with blunt trauma - Gupta M, Gertz M, Schriger DL.

STUDY OBJECTIVE: All articles that demonstrate a mortality benefit from liberal pan-computed tomography (CT) use in patients with blunt trauma have relied on Injury Severity Score (ISS) to control for morbidity. This mortality benefit may be artifact, the ...
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