Table 7.
Victorian major trauma criteria met using AIS98 and (mapped) AIS08.
| Criteria met using AIS98 | (Projected) criteria met using AIS08 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients | Incidence | Patients | Incidence | |
| ISS >15 only | 6204 | 40.1% | 3528 | 27.5% |
| Both ISS >15 and other criteria | 6615 | 42.8% | 5410 | 42.3% |
| Non-ISS criteria only | 2652 | 17.1% | 3857 | 30.1% |
| Total major trauma patients | 15471 | 100.0% | 12795 | 100.0% |
| Projected decrease using AIS08 (95% CI) |
17.3% (16.7-17.9%) | |||
| Total ISS >15 patients | 12819 | 82.3% | 8938 | 69.9% |
| Projected decrease using AIS08 (95% CI) |
30.3% (29.5-31.1%)* | |||
* = Estimate includes 276 patients for whom an ISS could not be calculated in AIS08