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Comparative Study
[Trauma score systems as instruments in quality control. A prospective study on validation of 7 trauma score systems with 612 trauma patients].
Quality control in the treatment of trauma patients often consists in comparisons of survival rates. The trauma population under study is seldom defined with regard to severity of injury. Therefore crude survival rates are of little help when the quality of care is discussed. ⋯ All trauma score systems tested showed sensitivities and specificities greater than 83%. They all proved their ability to classify trauma patients according to severity of injury. The TRISS performed best of all, with sensitivity of 93.1% and specificity of 93.7% at a cut-off point of 0.85.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)