Citation

Whitaker IY, Gennari TD, Whitaker AL. Annu. Proc. Assoc. Adv. Automot. Med. 2003; 47: 301-309.

Affiliation

Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo City, Brazil

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12941232

PMCID

PMC3217565

Abstract

The difference between the ISS and NISS scores was determined for 1,533 inpatients consecutively admitted in 1998 in the Emergency Department of a University Hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The average ISS was 12.49 +/- 12.72, and the average NISS was 16.99 +/- 17.60. The two predictive scores were identical in 47.75% of the patients and discrepant in 52.25%. In all cases of discrepant scores, the NISS was greater than ISS. NISS identified significantly more (42.47%) major trauma patients (score > or = 16) than ISS (34.18%) (p<0.001). For nonsurvivors the percentage of discrepant score was higher (75.68%) than for the survivors group (48.28%).