Open AccessPredicting Mortality of Korean Geriatric Trauma Patients: A Comparison between Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score and Trauma and Injury Severity Score
Author(s) -
Jiye Park,
Yunhwan Lee
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
yonsei medical journal/yonsei medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.702
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1976-2437
pISSN - 0513-5796
DOI - 10.3349/ymj.2022.63.1.88
Subject(s) - interquartile range , geriatric trauma , injury severity score , medicine , trauma center , revised trauma score , confidence interval , major trauma , mortality rate , emergency medicine , subgroup analysis , poison control , injury prevention , retrospective cohort study , surgery
The Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score (GTOS) is a new prognostic tool used to predict mortality of geriatric trauma patients. We aimed to apply this model to Korean geriatric trauma patients and compare it with the Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) method.