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ArticleWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES2017

Performance of new adjustments to the TRISS equation model in developed and developing countries.

Cristiane de Alencar Domingues, Raul Coimbra, Renato Sérgio Poggetti, Lilia de Souza Nogueira, Regina Marcia Cardoso Sousa

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Cristiane de Alencar DominguesFaculdade das Américas, São Paulo, SP Brazil.
Raul CoimbraUniversity of California San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA USA.
Renato Sérgio PoggettiMedical School, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, SP Brazil.
Lilia de Souza NogueiraSchool of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, SP Brazil.
Regina Marcia Cardoso SousaSchool of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, SP Brazil.

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backgroundThe Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS) has been criticized for being based on data from the USA and Canada-high-income countries-and therefore, it may not be applicable to low-income and middle-income countries. The present study evaluated the accuracy of three adjustments to the TRISS equation model (NTRISS-like; TRISS SpO

methodsThis was a retrospective study of trauma patients admitted to two institutions: a university medical center in São Paulo, Brazil (a middle-income country), and a level 1 university trauma center in San Diego, USA (a high-income country). Patients were admitted between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2010. The subjects were 2416 patients from Brazil and 8172 patients from the USA. All equations had adjusted coefficients for São Paulo and San Diego and for blunt and penetrating trauma. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were used to evaluate performance of the models.

resultsRegardless of the population where the equation was generated, it performed better when applied to patients in the USA (AUC from 0.911 to 0.982) compared to patients in Brazil (AUC from 0.840 to 0.852). When the severity was considered and homogenized, the performance of equations were similar to both application in the USA and Brazil.

conclusionsSurvival probability models showed better performance when applied in data collected in the high-income countries (HIC) regardless the country they were derived. The severity is an important factor to consider when using non-adjusted survival probability models for the local population. Adjusted models for severely traumatized patients better predict survival probability in less severely traumatized populations. Other factors besides physiological and anatomical data may impact final outcomes and should be identified in each environment if they are to be used in the development of the trauma care performance improvement process in middle-income countries.

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Injury Severity ScoreBrazilCaliforniaDeveloped CountriesDeveloping CountriesHumansOutcome Assessment, Health CareProbability TheoryRetrospective StudiesROC CurveTrauma CentersWounds and InjuriesInjury severity scoreOutcome assessmentTraumatologyWounds and injuries

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