Abstract
Howard Champion [1] has recently written that ‘severity scales to characterize the nature and extent of injury are important adjuncts to trauma care systems, trauma research and many of the elements of a complete public health approach to injury’. Nobody would dispute this statement. Unfortunately however, 30 years of effort have not yet produced a trauma score that is universally accepted. This is probably because a score that satisfies all needs with adequate sensitivity and specificity is an unachievable goal. Previous contributors to this series of texts have described the characteristics and shortcomings of many of the scores that have been proposed [2, 3]. This chapter gives an overview of the properties of scoring systems and discusses why the search for a universally acceptable trauma score is unlikely to be successful.
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Sutcliffe, A.J. (2003). Scoring systems in trauma. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2215-7_33
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