Ten-year inhospital mortality trends for patients with trauma in Japan: a multicentre observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Trauma is one of the main causes of death in Japan, and treatments and prognoses of these injuries are constantly changing. We therefore aimed to investigate a 10-year trend (2004-2013) in inhospital mortality among patients with trauma in Japan.

Design

Multicentre observational study.

Setting

Japanese nationwide trauma registry (the Japan Trauma Data Bank) data.

Participants

All patients with trauma whose Injury Severity Score (ISS) were 3 and above, who were aged 15 years or older, and whose mechanisms of injury (MOI) were blunt and penetrating between 2004 and 2013 (n=90 833).

Outcome measures

A 10-year trend in inhospital mortality.

Results

Inhospital mortality for all patients with trauma significantly decreased over the study deca

SUBMITTER: Nagata I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829856 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature