Open AccessOlder age, comorbid illnesses, and injury severity affect immediate outcome in elderly trauma patients
Author(s) -
Dvora Kirshenbom,
Zila Ben-Zaken,
Nehama Albilya,
Eva Niyibizi,
Miklosh Bala
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/jets.jets_62_16
Subject(s) - affect (linguistics) , medicine , comorbidity , outcome (game theory) , psychiatry , gerontology , psychology , mathematics , communication , mathematical economics
Trauma in elderly population is frequent and is associated with significant mortality, not only due to age but also due to complicated factors such as the severity of injury, preexisting comorbidity, and incomplete general assessment. Our primary aim was to determine whether age, Injury Severity Score (ISS), and preexisting comorbidities had an adverse effect on the outcome in patients aged 65 years and above following blunt trauma.