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Table 4 Mortality of patients with similar NISS and different number of injuries

From: The counterintuitive effect of multiple injuries in severity scoring: a simple variable improves the predictive ability of NISS

NISS

Mortality (%)

 

1 injury

2 injuries

3 or more injuries

8-9

6/70 (8.57)

1/15 (6.67)

0/12 (0)

14-17

4/66 (6.06)

0/12 (0)

5/164 (3.05)

24-26

19/75 (25.33)

3/47 (6.38)

2/62 (3.23)