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Injury severity: Scales, incidence, hospitalization rate, mortality risk, economic costs, modeling considerations, and best practices

Nathaniel Heatwole

Journal of Safety Research2026https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2026.01.003article
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This improves the comparability of the scales, allows seemingly disparate AIS/ISS values to be better and more directly compared, facilitates the pooling of mixed AIS/ISS data in meta-analyses, and allows costs for the ISS scale to be quantified.

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@article{nathaniel2026,
  title        = {{Injury severity: Scales, incidence, hospitalization rate, mortality risk, economic costs, modeling considerations, and best practices}},
  author       = {Nathaniel Heatwole},
  journal      = {Journal of Safety Research},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsr.2026.01.003},
}

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