Impact of comorbidities on the prognoses of trauma patients: Analysis of a hospital-based trauma registry database.

ABSTRACT: Here we conducted a retrospective analysis of hospital-based trauma registry database for evaluating the impacts of comorbidities on the prognosis for traumatized patients using Index of Coexistent Comorbidity Disease (ICED) scores. We analyzed the data of patients with blunt trauma who visited emergency department between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2015 in Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung branch, a single level I trauma center in the Northern Taiwan. All consecutive patients with blunt trauma who admitted to the intensive care unit or ordinary ward after initial managements in the emergency department were included. We measured the hospital mortality of blunt traumatized patients using alive discharge as a competing risk. To investigate conditional independence of mortality an

SUBMITTER: Wang CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5860791 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature