• Similarly, this technique can be used retrospectively to identify and control for differences in baseline injury severity between patient populations. (medscape.com)
  • Perhaps the most important role for injury severity scoring is in trauma care research. (medscape.com)
  • To demonstrate the impact of psychological morbidity 1 month post-injury on subsequent post-injury quality of life (HRQoL) in a general injury population in the UK to inform development of trauma care and rehabilitation services. (springer.com)
  • The aim of this study was therefore to demonstrate the impact of psychological morbidity one month post-injury on subsequent quality of life in a general injury population in the UK to inform development of trauma care and rehabilitation services. (springer.com)
  • Using existing medical records, we were able to enter data on most variables including mechanism of injuries, burden of severe injuries and quality indicators such as length of stay in ED, injury to arrival delay, as well as generate injury severity and survival probability but missed information such as ethnicity, ED notification. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Injuries are a leading cause of mortality and morbidity. (springer.com)
  • The ability to predict outcome from trauma (ie, mortality) is perhaps the most fundamental use of injury severity scoring, a use that arises from the patient's and the family's desires to know the prognosis. (medscape.com)
  • Alcohol related falls are more often associated with severe craniofacial injury. (bmj.com)
  • Over the past 25 years the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA), and its National Playground Safety Institute (NPSI), have provided valuable training to better understand and eliminate the root causes of most severe playground injuries. (playgroundprofessionals.com)
  • Since its introduction, by the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) International Injury Scaling Committee (IISC), the parent organization of the AIS modified the AIS, most recently in 2005 (AIS-2005). (medscape.com)
  • The AIS is monitored by a scaling committee of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. (oregonaero.com)
  • Assessing outcomes objectively is challenging, but the evolution of injury severity scoring systems with sufficient precision and reproducibility now permits trauma centers to compare their processes and outcomes, facilitating identification of best practices that form the foundations of quality improvement programs. (medscape.com)
  • OBJECTIVES: To examine level of play (LOP) as a risk factor for concussion severity and recovery-related outcomes among high school athletes, stratified by sex, and among boys, by sport (football, non-football male sports). (cdc.gov)
  • The ability to predict survival after trauma is perhaps the most fundamental use of injury severity scoring, Furthermore, injury severity scoring can provide objective correlations with resource utiliziation such as length of stay and costs of treatment, as well as inform clinical decisions regarding management of injuries of specific severity. (medscape.com)
  • The risk factor literature for PTSD has conceptualized life threat in terms of objective aspects, i.e., physical injury, and subjective aspects, i.e., perceived life threat. (auburn.edu)
  • More recently, physicians suggested that injury severity scoring can provide objective information for end-of-life decision-making and resource allocation. (medscape.com)
  • Each standard introduction and scope defines the objective of injury reduction. (playgroundprofessionals.com)
  • In 2016, WHO estimated that the death rate in Afghanistan due to road traffic injuries was 15.1 per 100 000 population, with road traffic crashes accounting for a sizeable proportion of injury-related deaths - 24% and 18% of male and female injury-related fatalities, respectively. (who.int)
  • These elements, in turn, lead to the reduction of fatalities and injuries in road traffic crashes and disabilities induced by traffic accidents in the world, as well as the related effects, be they economic or psychological, with a view to improving health and safety standards for road users and achieving a better life quality. (qscience.com)
  • Since then, it has been revised and updated against survival so that it now provides a reasonably accurate way of ranking the severity of injury. (oregonaero.com)
  • Falls and motor vehicle crashes were the most common mechanisms of injury. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The new Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030 has the ambitious target of preventing at least 50% of road traffic deaths and injuries by 2030. (who.int)
  • The mean Injury Severity Score (ISS) was 4.99 and there were 8 deaths. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Ninety per cent of trauma- and injury-related deaths and disabilities occur in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) [ 12 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The AIS is the basis for the Injury Severity Score (ISS), which is the most widely used measure of injury severity in patients with trauma. (medscape.com)
  • Although, decisions for individual patients should never be based solely on a statistically derived injury severity score, scoring systems can nonetheless serve to estimate quantitatively the level of acuity of injured patients that are applied to adjustments in hospital outcome assessments. (medscape.com)
  • Therefore, decisions for individual patients should never be based solely on a statistically derived injury severity score. (medscape.com)
  • The department is also responsible for managing the prevention and control of road traffic injuries. (who.int)
  • The resulting National Strategy for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases 2014-2018 aimed to prevent or delay the onset of NCDs, including road injuries, and related complications, and to improve the management of NCDs, thus enhancing the quality of life of the Afghan population. (who.int)
  • In recent years, traffic safety, as well as the prevention and treatment of accident injuries have received more attention. (qscience.com)
  • It also includes the prevention of injuries, first aid programs, establishment of related student clubs in universities, enhancement of traffic medicine awareness among many other projects and programs drawing on intensifying awareness about traffic safety and medicine. (qscience.com)
  • A reduction in EQ-5D compared to retrospectively assessed pre-injury levels of at least 0.074 was taken as the minimal important difference (MID). (springer.com)
  • Injury severity scoring is indispensable in stratifying patients into comparable groups for prospective clinical trials. (medscape.com)
  • To discover if there is a significant difference in the pattern and severity of injury sustained during falls in patients who have consumed alcohol and those who have not. (bmj.com)
  • All patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED) of the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) with a diagnosis of injury as defined in ICD-9 CM were included. (biomedcentral.com)
  • About 87% of patients had sustained blunt injury. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The need to reconcile the difference between the definitions for a "serious injury" according to the AIS System and the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and what our standard's scope says. (playgroundprofessionals.com)
  • Information on the injuries was also collected and coded by severity and location on the body, using a system known as the Abbreviated Injury Scale AIS. (die-christen.co.za)
  • Road traffic injuries continue to constitute a significant threat to public health and development in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and globally. (who.int)
  • Nevertheless, road traffic injuries remain a leading cause of death in in the country especially among the younger age groups. (who.int)
  • As a matter of fact, road traffic injuries are not the leading cause of death in any age group. (who.int)
  • In this research, a disaggregate analysis of road accident injury under-reporting in selected European countries is presented. (scipedia.com)
  • The level of injury under-reporting is expressed by under-reporting coefficients, estimated as the actual estimated number of road accident injuries of a given severity to the number of related injuries recorded by the Police. (scipedia.com)
  • An accurate method for quantitatively summarizing injury severity has many potential applications. (medscape.com)
  • Depression and anxiety scores 1 month post-injury were independently associated with subsequent MID in HRQoL. (springer.com)
  • A systematic history and examination permitted calculation of injury severity scores as per abbreviated injury scale update 1998. (bmj.com)
  • This article reviews the conceptual and statistical background necessary to understand injury severity scoring, presents the most common scoring systems, and addresses new ideas and trends in trauma scoring. (medscape.com)
  • Review of the literature demonstrated a Finnish study by Honkanen 1 and an American study by Hingson 2 investigating alcohol related falls although there has been more research on the effect of alcohol on general brain injury. (bmj.com)
  • The alcohol group had a higher incidence of head injuries (46 (48%) versus 22 (9%)) with a lower incidence of limb injuries (39 (39%) versus 183 (76%)) than the no alcohol group. (bmj.com)
  • The severity of both limb and head injury is greater and correlates directly with blood alcohol concentration. (bmj.com)
  • The international performance standards (ASTM F1487, ASTM F1292, EN1176, EN1177, CSA Z614) and the CPSC Handbook state in very general terms the types of injuries they are attempting to address. (playgroundprofessionals.com)
  • The question which needs to be answered is whether or not performance requirements for both equipment and impact attenuation surface systems are addressing the level of injury, specifically life-threatening and debilitating. (playgroundprofessionals.com)
  • For example, it was found that slight injuries are more likely to be under-reported than serious injuries in the Czech Republic, France, and Greece, while the opposite is the case for the Netherlands and the UK. (scipedia.com)
  • Characterization of injury severity is crucial to the scientific study of trauma, yet the actual measurement of injury severity began only 50 years ago. (medscape.com)
  • Multicentre cohort study of 16-70-year-olds admitted to 4 UK hospitals following injury. (springer.com)
  • This study compares the pattern and severity of injury in those that have taken alcohol with those who have not. (bmj.com)
  • The study compares pattern and severity of injury with blood alcohol concentration within the alcohol group. (bmj.com)
  • PLT, Betrayal, and Injury by Trauma Type. (auburn.edu)
  • Every standard and guideline I have read admits and accepts the fact there will continue to be many injuries sustained by children at play. (playgroundprofessionals.com)
  • Identifying and managing these problems, ensuring adequate pain control and facilitating social functioning are key elements in improving HRQoL post-injury. (springer.com)
  • Field trauma scoring also is used to facilitate rational prehospital triage decisions, thereby minimizing the time from injury occurrence to definitive management. (medscape.com)
  • In the alcohol group severity and pattern correlated with alcohol concentration at the time of injury. (bmj.com)
  • Finally, a considerable part of total under-reporting in most countries can be attributed to injury severity mis-reporting. (scipedia.com)
  • Researchers use multiple independent variables (eg, age, injury severity) to predict the dependent variable (or outcome). (medscape.com)
  • Multilevel logistic regression explored relationships between psychological morbidity 1 month post-injury and MID in HRQoL over the 12 months after injury. (springer.com)
  • Last month I gave my perspective on how playground-related injuries and the different severity of injuries do not necessarily correlate with the notion a currently compliant playground will eliminate or substantially reduce the frequency or severity of injuries. (playgroundprofessionals.com)