The CBS test: Development, evaluation & cross-validation of a community-based injury severity scoring system in Cameroon.

ABSTRACT: Injury-related deaths overwhelmingly occur in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Community-based injury surveillance is essential to accurately capture trauma epidemiology in LMICs, where one-third of injured individuals never present to formal care. However, community-based studies are constrained by the lack of a validated surrogate injury severity metric. The primary objective of this bipartite study was to cross-validate a novel community-based injury severity (CBS) scoring system with previously-validated injury severity metrics using multi-center trauma registry data. A set of targeted questions to ascertain injury severity in non-medical settings-the CBS test-was iteratively developed with Cameroonian physicians and laypeople. The CBS test was first evaluated in the community-

SUBMITTER: Tupper H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10370767 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature