Trauma score versus revised trauma score in TRISS to predict outcome in children with blunt trauma

Ann Emerg Med. 1989 Sep;18(9):939-42. doi: 10.1016/s0196-0644(89)80457-3.

Abstract

We analyzed the accuracy of TRISS and a revised TRISS to predict survival outcome in a group of 1,562 consecutive children less than 15 years old admitted with blunt trauma to a pediatric trauma center. TRISS is an index that computes a probability of survival for each patient based on Trauma Score, Injury Severity Score, and age. R-TRISS uses the Revised Trauma Score instead of the Trauma Score. We used a statistical method based on TRISS and R-TRISS to compare patient outcomes from the pediatric study group with those of an adult baseline control group from the Major Trauma Outcome Study. Both TRISS and R-TRISS have the capability to accurately quantify survival outcome for children with blunt trauma; there was no statistical difference between the two methods to do so.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Blood Pressure
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Male
  • Prognosis
  • Respiration
  • Severity of Illness Index*
  • Wounds, Nonpenetrating / mortality*