The role of the New Trauma and Injury Severity Score (NTRISS) for survival prediction

• Main Authors: Cristiane de Alencar Domingues (Author), Regina Marcia Cardoso de Sousa (Author), Lilia de Souza Nogueira (Author), Renato Sérgio Poggetti (Author), Belchor Fontes (Author), Daniele Muñoz (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SciELO, 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The objective of this study was to verify if replacing the Injury Severity Score (ISS) by the New Injury Severity Score (NISS) in the original Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) form would improve the survival rate estimation. This retrospective study was performed in a level I trauma center d...