An improved modified early warning score that incorporates the abdomen score for identifying multiple traumatic injury severity

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Xiaobin Jiang

Abstract

Rapid identification of trauma severity is essential for the timely triage of multiple trauma patients. Tools such as the modified early warning score (MEWS) are used for determining injury severity. Although the conventional MEWS is a good predictor of mortality, its performance assessing injury severity is moderate. This study hypothesized that adding an injury site severity-related score (e.g., abdomen score) may enhance the capability of the MEWS for identifying severe trauma. To validate the hypothesis, we propose an improved modified early warning score called MEWS-A, which incorporates an injury site-specific severity-related abdomen score to MEWS. The utility of MEWS and MEWS-A were retrospectively evaluated and compared for identifying trauma severity in adult multiple trauma patients admitted to the emergency department. We included 1,230 eligible multiple trauma patients and divided them into minor and severe trauma groups based on the injury severity score. Results of logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses showed that the MEWS-A had a higher area under the ROC curve (AUC: 0.81 95% CI [0.78-0.83]) than did the MEWS (AUC: 0.77 95% CI [0.74-0.79]), indicating that the MEWS-A is s...Continue Reading

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May 24, 2021·Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine·Julie ConsidineRamon Z Shaban

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