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Preferred term

Injury Severity Score  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • ISS Score

Scope note

  • An anatomic severity scale based on the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and developed specifically to score multiple traumatic injuries. It has been used as a predictor of mortality.

History note

  • 91(90); was see under TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES 1990

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D015601

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