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Descriptor English: Injury Severity Score
Descriptor Spanish: Puntaje de Gravedad del Traumatismo
Descriptor puntuación de gravedad de las lesiones
Entry term(s) puntuación ISS
puntuación de gravedad de la lesión
Scope note: Escala de gravedad anatómica basada en la escala abreviada de lesiones (AIS, sigla en inglés), desarrollada específicamente para clasificar, sobre la base de una puntuación, las lesiones traumáticas múltiples. Se ha empleado como instrumento para pronosticar la mortalidad.
Descriptor Portuguese: Escala de Gravidade do Ferimento
Descriptor French: Score de gravité des lésions traumatiques
Entry term(s): ISS Score
Injury Severity Scores
Score, Injury Severity
Scores, Injury Severity
Tree number(s): E05.318.308.940.968.875.500
E05.944.600
N04.452.859.564.800.500
N05.715.360.300.715.500.800.400
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015601
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.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Previous Indexing: Severity of Illness Index (1985-1989)
Wounds and Injuries (1974-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES 1990
History Note: 91(90); was see under TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES 1990
Entry Version: INJ SEVERITY SCORE
DeCS ID: 24743
Unique ID: D015601
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/05/25
Revision Date: 2017/06/30
Injury Severity Score - Preferred
Concept UI M0023946
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.
Preferred term Injury Severity Score
Entry term(s) ISS Score
Injury Severity Scores
Score, Injury Severity
Scores, Injury Severity



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