Characterizing injury severity in non-accidental trauma: does injury severity score miss the mark? - Brown JB, Gestring ML, Leeper CM, Sperry JL, Peitzman AB, Billiar TR, Gaines BA.

BACKGROUND: Children suffering non-accidental trauma (NAT) are at high risk of death. It is unclear whether markers of injury severity for trauma center/system benchmarking such as injury severity score (ISS) adequately characterize this. Our objective was...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news