"Injury Severity Score" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
An anatomic severity scale based on the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) and developed specifically to score multiple traumatic injuries. It has been used as a predictor of mortality.
| Descriptor ID |
D015601
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.308.940.968.875.500 E05.944.600 N04.452.859.564.800.500 N05.715.360.300.715.500.800.400
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| Concept/Terms |
Injury Severity Score- Injury Severity Score
- Injury Severity Scores
- Score, Injury Severity
- Scores, Injury Severity
- ISS Score
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| 1998 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2000 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2003 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 2004 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2005 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2006 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2008 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2009 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2012 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2013 | 0 | 9 | 9 |
| 2014 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 2015 | 1 | 13 | 14 |
| 2016 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2017 | 1 | 15 | 16 |
| 2018 | 1 | 17 | 18 |
| 2019 | 1 | 13 | 14 |
| 2020 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2021 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 2023 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2024 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| 2025 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| 2026 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Injury Severity Score" by people in Profiles.
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The fracture orthopedic risk of non-home discharge (FORD) score: A novel bedside predictive tool for non-home discharge in orthopedic trauma patients. Injury. 2026 Jul; 57(7):113301.
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Mechanism-Stratified Complications After Operative Management of Low-Grade Colon Injuries. J Surg Res. 2026 May; 321:452-460.
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Emergency Medical Individual Clinician Volume and Mortality in Trauma Patients. JAMA Surg. 2026 04 01; 161(4):389-396.
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Combat-Related Genitourinary Trauma in Pediatric Patients: Data From the Department of Defense Trauma Registry. J Pediatr Surg. 2025 Nov; 60(11):162576.
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Outcomes of routine surveillance of grade 1 blunt traumatic aortic injury. J Vasc Surg. 2025 11; 82(5):1624-1629.
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Primary repair versus resection for American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grades I and II colon injuries: Does the management approach really matter? An Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma multicenter trial. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2025 07 01; 99(1):105-112.
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Let the resident try: Evaluation of central venous catheter placement in patients with hypotensive trauma using trauma video review. Surgery. 2025 05; 181:109215.
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Kidney organ injury scaling: 2025 update. J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2025 03 01; 98(3):448-451.
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Adverse Prehospital Events and Outcomes After Traumatic Brain Injury. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 01 02; 8(1):e2457506.
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Outcomes of children transferred to a pediatric trauma center after blunt abdominal trauma: A 10-year experience. Am J Emerg Med. 2025 02; 88:197-203.