Samenvatting
A prospective study was undertaken over a 2 1 /2 year period to determine the value of a prospective anatomical severity score ("Estimated" Injury Severity Score (EISS), in combina- tion with age, for early risk assessment. Five hundred ninety- two blunt trauma patients were used to develop a pre- dictive model of mortality through a logistic regression. The modal was validated using 216 patients; a high degree of agreement was found.