Eli Mlaver, Christopher J Dente, Gina Solomon, Morgan Krause, William Matthew Vassy, S Rob Todd, Patricia Ayoung-Chee
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Abstract
Injury Severity Score (ISS) as a prospective predictive variable is limited, as it is scored post-discharge by registrars. We followed a phase 1 pilot investigation of the feasibility of prospective ISS estimation (eISS) by trauma surgeons within 1 day of admission with an investigation of the impact of a simple educational aid on the accuracy of these estimations. Eleven surgeons evaluated 178 patients in phase 2. With the educational aid, ISS concordance improved from 74.6% to 85.1% for non-severe (abstracted ISS, aISS <16) injuries and from 78.8% to 83.1% for severe (aISS ≥16) injuries; weighted k improved from 0.53 to 0.72. Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) concordance similarly improved in five of seven body regions. The ability to prospectively document ISS has important clinical and research implications. There remains opportunity to refine educational aides and harness the EHR to further improve prediction accuracy and facilitate adoption in standard clinical workflows.
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The American Surgeon is a monthly peer-reviewed publication published by the Southeastern Surgical Congress. Its area of concentration is clinical general surgery, as defined by the content areas of the American Board of Surgery: alimentary tract (including bariatric surgery), abdomen and its contents, breast, skin and soft tissue, endocrine system, solid organ transplantation, pediatric surgery, surgical critical care, surgical oncology (including head and neck surgery), trauma and emergency surgery, and vascular surgery.