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The counterintuitive effect of multiple injuries in severity scoring: a simple variable improves the predictive ability of NISS

BACKGROUND: Injury scoring is important to formulate prognoses for trauma patients. Although scores based on empirical estimation allow for better prediction, those based on expert consensus, e.g. the New Injury Severity Score (NISS) are widely used. We describe how the addition of a variable quanti...

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Autores principales: Di Bartolomeo, Stefano, Ventura, Chiara, Marino, Massimiliano, Valent, Francesca, Trombetti, Susanna, De Palma, Rossana
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21504567
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-19-26