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A prospective study of trauma patients at Gandhi Medical College and associated hospital emergency department, Bhopal, analysing anatomical and physiological scoring systems to predict mortality

Background Trauma, in a developing country like India, is a leader together with non-communicable diseases, when measured in terms of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) lost. Trauma scoring systems have been shown to decrease the number of preventable deaths caused by trauma. The aim of this study is to compare the various physiological and anatomical scoring systems.

Methods Two hundred and sixty two cases of trauma of adult age group admitted in Gandhi Medical College and Hamidia Hospital, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India from 1 July 2014 to 1 December 2014.

Results Out of the 262 patients included in the study, 242 were discharged alive while 20 (7.6%) died. In our study, in of the patients who died it was observed that RTS was significantly low ( /=25 for ISS and >/=50 for TRISS).

Conclusions Of all the scoring system TRISS has got the best sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value of 83.3% and also miscalculation rate of 1.5 as per the MOTS norms as compared to RTS, which has sensitivity of 90% but low specificity, and ISS which has sensitivity and specificity comparable to TRISS but low positive predictive value.