• Pieter Joosse, Willem-Jan J de Jong, Johannes B Reitsma, Klaus W Wendt, Niels W Schep, and J Carel Goslings.
• 1Trauma Unit, Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2Department of Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands. 3Department of Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, University Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• Crit. Care Med.. 2014 Jan 1;42(1):83-9.

ObjectivesThe Emergency Trauma Score has been developed for early estimation of mortality risk in adult trauma patients with an Injury Severity Score of 16 or higher. Emergency Trauma Score combines four early predictors available at the trauma resuscitation room: age, Glasgow Coma Scale, base excess, and prothrombin time. Our goal was to validate the Emergency Trauma Score in two large external cohorts. As the Injury Severity Score is not accurately known at the time patients present at the resuscitation room, we evaluated the performance of Emergency Trauma Score in all trauma patients.DesignExternal validation study using data from two prospectively collected trauma registries.SettingTwo academic level 1 trauma centers.PatientsAdult patients admitted to the hospital after treatment at the trauma resuscitation room.InterventionCalibration and discrimination of the original Emergency Trauma Score were assessed within each cohort separately.Measurement And Main ResultsA total of 4,418 consecutive patients were evaluated. Discrimination was good in both validation cohorts, with areas under the receiver-operating curve curves that were even higher (0.94 and 0.92, respectively) than that in the original cohort (0.83). Predicted mortality was systematically too high compared with actual mortality in patients with low-to-medium expected risk (< 25%). Calibration improved in the lower expected risk range after exclusion of patients with Injury Severity Score less than 16.ConclusionsThe Emergency Trauma Score model performs well in discriminating between trauma patients who will survive and who will not. If applied to all trauma patients, predicted mortality risks are too high in the low-risk category.

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