Classifying Trauma Severity Based on Hospital Discharge Diagnoses

Harborview Assessment for Risk of Mortality: An Improved Measure of Injury Severity on the Basis of ICD-9-CM

“…Many trauma centers, in an effort to obviate that need, rely on the ICDMAP program 16 to convert ICD-9-CM injury diagnosis codes into AIS scores for use in calculation of ISS and TRISS. However, there is not a one-to-one correspondence for most of the ICD-9-CM diagnoses, and many injuries are inaccurately scored by this method.…”

“…16 These AIS scores were used to calculate an ISS and then combined with age and Revised Trauma Score data using published coefficients. 17 An ICISS score 9 was also derived for each validation set patient, using a dictionary of the survival risk ratios derived from the North Carolina Hospital Discharge database.…”

The incidence of peripheral nerve injury in trauma patients in Iran

“…[13] The high incidence of PNI in male patients is reflected in other sources in the literature. [9,10,[13][14][15][16] The exception for this rule can be seen in the study of Taylor et al, [6] which reported almost equal PNI in males and females. Additionally, Ahrari et al [9] reported 52% of male injury in the Bam earthquake, which may be due to almost similar involvement of both sexes in disasters.…”

Delayed Internal Fixation of Femoral Shaft Fracture Reduces Mortality Among Patients with Multisystem Trauma

“…An a priori list of baseline covariates available in the National Trauma Data Bank 5.0 was generated on the basis of the literature and clinical suspicion as potential confounders of the relationship between treatment time and mortality. These covariates included age, sex, race, maximum Abbreviated Injury Score 18 for each of the six anatomic regions (head/neck, face, *SD = standard deviation. Treatment groups are defined as t 0 (twelve hours or less), t 1 (more than twelve hours to twenty-four hours), t 2 (more than twenty-four hours to forty-eight hours), t 3 (more than forty-eight hours to 120 hours), and t 4 (more than 120 hours).…”