Pablo Perel, David Prieto-Merino, Haleema Shakur, Tim Clayton, Fiona Lecky, Omar Bouamra, Rob Russell, Mark Faulkner, Ewout W Steyerberg, Ian Roberts
OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate a prognostic model for early death in patients with traumatic bleeding. DESIGN: Multivariable logistic regression of a large international cohort of trauma patients. SETTING: 274 hospitals in 40 high, medium, and low income countries PARTICIPANTS: Prognostic model development: 20,127 trauma patients with, or at risk of, significant bleeding, within 8 hours of injury in the Clinical Randomisation of an Antifibrinolytic in Significant Haemorrhage (CRASH-2) trial...
August 15, 2012: BMJ: British Medical Journal