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Table 3 Area Under the ROC Curve for ISS and wISS in the test sample (NTDB 2007-2014)

From: A new weighted injury severity scoring system: better predictive power for adult trauma mortality

      

ISS

wISS

Increase in AUC

ISS groups

# patients

# death

% death

AUC

95% CI

AUC

95% CI

All Trauma

Total

1-74 (all severity)

915,869

36,187

4.0

0.83

(0.83-0.83)

0.83

(0.83-0.83)

0.00

1-15

697,931

8,776

1.3

0.60

(0.60-0.61)

0.60

(0.60-0.61)

0.00

16-74 (major)

217,938

27,411

12.6

0.73

(0.73-0.74)

0.76

(0.76-0.77)

0.03

16-24

137,083

6,181

4.5

0.52

(0.52-0.53)

0.51

(0.50-0.51)

-0.02

25-74 (critical)

80,855

21,230

26.3

0.53

(0.52-0.53)

0.68

(0.67-0.68)

0.15

Injury Type

Blunt

1-74 (all severity)

770,884

28,272

3.7

0.82

(0.82-0.82)

0.82

(0.82-0.83)

0.00

1-15

576,492

7,064

1.2

0.60

(0.60-0.61)

0.60

(0.59-0.60)

0.00

16-74 (major)

194,392

21,208

10.9

0.74

(0.74-0.74)

0.77

(0.76-0.77)

0.03

16-24

124,796

4,995

4.0

0.50

(0.49-0.50)

0.52

(0.51-0.53)

0.02

25-74 (critical)

69,596

16,213

23.3

0.56

(0.55-0.56)

0.68

(0.68-0.69)

0.13

Penatrating

1-74 (all severity)

90,474

5,910

6.5

0.88

(0.88-0.89)

0.89

(0.89-0.90)

0.01

1-15

74,895

1,077

1.4

0.61

(0.59-0.63)

0.62

(0.60-0.64)

0.01

16-74 (major)

15,579

4,833

31.0

0.69

(0.69-0.70)

0.77

(0.77-0.78)

0.08

16-24

7,303

885

12.1

0.59

(0.57-0.61)

0.52

(0.50-0.54)

-0.07

25-74 (critical)

8,276

3,948

47.7

0.49

(0.48-0.50)

0.73

(0.71-0.74)

0.23

Burn

1-74 (all severity)

14,881

618

4.2

0.87

(0.85-0.89)

0.87

(0.85-0.89)

0.00

1-15

13,763

244

1.8

0.73

(0.70-0.76)

0.73

(0.70-0.76)

0.00

16-74 (major)

1,118

374

33.5

0.69

(0.66-0.72)

0.70

(0.67-0.73)

0.02

16-24

554

89

16.1

0.52

(0.48-0.56)

0.51

(0.47-0.54)

-0.02

25-74 (critical)

564

285

50.5

0.49

(0.46-0.52)

0.53

(0.49-0.56)

0.04

Isolated/poly

Isolated trauma

1-74 (all severity)

262,969

5,473

2.1

0.74

(0.73-0.75)

0.75

(0.74-0.75)

0.01

1-15

242,937

3,158

1.3

0.60

(0.59-0.61)

0.62

(0.61-0.63)

0.01

16-74 (major)

20,032

2,315

11.6

0.75

(0.74-0.76)

0.76

(0.75-0.77)

0.01

16-24

14,452

663

4.6

0.50

(0.50-0.50)

0.51

(0.50-0.53)

0.01

25-74 (critical)

5,580

1,652

29.6

0.50

(0.50-0.50)

0.62

(0.61-0.63)

0.12

Polytrauma

1-74 (all severity)

652,900

30,714

4.7

0.84

(0.84-0.84)

0.84

(0.84-0.84)

0.00

1-15

454,994

5,618

1.2

0.61

(0.60-0.62)

0.61

(0.60-0.61)

0.00

16-74 (major)

197,906

25,096

12.7

0.74

(0.73-0.74)

0.76

(0.76-0.77)

0.03

16-24

122,631

5,518

4.5

0.52

(0.51-0.53)

0.51

(0.50-0.51)

-0.02

25-74 (critical)

75,275

19,578

26.0

0.54

(0.54-0.55)

0.68

(0.67-0.68)

0.13

Age, years

18-44

1-74 (all severity)

412,218

11,713

2.8

0.86

(0.86-0.86)

0.86

(0.86-0.86)

0.00

1-15

321,398

2,133

0.7

0.56

(0.55-0.57)

0.56

(0.55-0.57)

0.00

16-74 (major)

90,820

9,580

10.6

0.76

(0.75-0.76)

0.78

(0.77-0.78)

0.02

16-24

53,119

1,452

2.7

0.54

(0.52-0.55)

0.54

(0.53-0.56)

0.01

25-74 (critical)

37,701

8,128

21.6

0.57

(0.56-0.58)

0.69

(0.68-0.69)

0.12

45-64

1-74 (all severity)

260,211

9,212

3.5

0.84

(0.84-0.85)

0.85

(0.84-0.85)

0.00

1-15

195,857

1,885

1.0

0.58

(0.57-0.59)

0.58

(0.57-0.60)

0.00

16-74 (major)

64,354

7,327

11.4

0.76

(0.76-0.77)

0.79

(0.79-0.80)

0.03

16-24

41,484

1,460

3.5

0.51

(0.50-0.53)

0.51

(0.50-0.53)

0.00

25-74 (critical)

22,870

5,867

25.7

0.56

(0.55-0.56)

0.70

(0.69-0.71)

0.14

65+

1-74 (all severity)

243,440

15,262

6.3

0.79

(0.78-0.79)

0.79

(0.78-0.79)

0.00

1-15

180,676

4,758

2.6

0.59

(0.58-0.60)

0.59

(0.58-0.60)

0.00

16-74 (major)

62,764

10,504

16.7

0.73

(0.73-0.74)

0.73

(0.72-0.74)

0.00

16-24

42,480

3,269

7.7

0.52

(0.51-0.53)

0.52

(0.51-0.54)

0.00

25-74 (critical)

20,284

7,235

35.7

0.54

(0.53-0.54)

0.64

(0.63-0.65)

0.10

  1. AUC Areas under the receiver operating characteristic, ISS Injury severity score, CI Confidence interval