BACKGROUND Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) and the Trauma Injury Severity Score (TRISS) are physiological and anatomical severity scores to predict trauma outcome. Nutritional Risk Screening (NRS-2002) is used for the screening of nutritional risk, which can affect outcome adversely. The objective of this study was to determine the reliability of these scales to pr...

OBJECTIVE To report trauma outcome from a developing country based on the Trauma and Injury Severity Scoring (TRISS) method and compare the outcome with the registry data from Major Trauma Outcome Study (MTOS). DESIGN Registry based audit of all trauma patients over two years. SETTING Emergency room of a teaching university hospital. SUBJECTS 279 injured patients meeting trauma team activ...

BACKGROUND Blunt hollow viscus injury (HVI) is uncommon. No sufficiently large series has studied the prevalence of these injuries in blunt trauma patients. This study defines the prevalence of blunt HVI, in addition to the associated morbidity and mortality rates for this diagnosis on the basis of a series of over 275,000 trauma admissions. METHODS Patients with blunt small bowel injury (SBI...

Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) has been the benchmark of mortality risk in trauma centers for over 30 years. TRISS utilizes the Injury Severity Score (ISS) as an index of anatomical injury. This study investigated the efficacy of a new type of index of anatomical injury called the ICD-derived Injury Severity Score (ICISS) compared to the ISS using a logistic regression analysis and a ...

The aim of this study was to test a cognitive model of posttraumatic symptoms (PTS) and posttraumatic growth (PTG) after exposure to a natural disaster. It was hypothesized that although subjective severity of trauma would be related to the severity of PTS, this relation would be mediated by brooding and cognitive strategies related to the presence of repetitive negative content in thoughts. Fu...

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether trauma exposure before, during, and/or after military service contributed to current levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and adjustment. Further, we investigated whether trauma exposure before military service was mediated or moderated by military trauma in its effects on current PTSD and adjustment. METHOD In this retrospective study, archiva...

Introduction: Trauma is a major health problem worldwide. Prediction of probability of survival in trauma patients is a basic requirement for evaluation of trauma care. Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) is used for scoring injury severity and have been suggested as a measure of the quality of trauma care. Objective: The Objective of the study is to determine mortality, morbidity, hospita...