TY - JOUR PY - 1995// TI - Severity of injuries in trauma patients JO - Perceptual and motor skills A1 - Kingma, J. SP - 105 EP - 106 VL - 80 IS - 1 N2 - The present purpose was to illustrate the range of severity scores among trauma patients. A computerized conversion of ICD-9CM injury diagnoses into scores for severity of injury was processed on data of 36,178 trauma patients. More than 94% of the patients had injuries of minor severity. The probability of mortality was .67 when the Injury Severity Score (ISS) was > or = 16.

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