Open AccessInternational classification of diseases-based audit of the injury database to understand the injury distribution in patients who have sustained a head injury (International Classification of Diseases Codes: S00-S09)
Author(s) -
Mitasha Singh,
Ranabir Pal,
Pradeep Yarasani,
Prashant Bhandarkar,
Ashok Munivenkatappa,
Amit Agrawal
Publication year - 2018
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_90_17
Subject(s) - medicine , glasgow coma scale , traumatic brain injury , head injury , injury severity score , observational study , emergency medicine , abbreviated injury scale , injury prevention , major trauma , case fatality rate , poison control , intensive care medicine , epidemiology , medical emergency , surgery , psychiatry
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of mortality, morbidity, and disability globally. Methods for a reliable prediction of outcomes on the admission of TBI cases are of great clinical relevance to stakeholders.