Assessement of the predictive validity of the injury impairment scale in multiple injured patients with a head injury

Van Camp, L.; Dechamps, M.; Sabbe, M.; Vanderschot, P.; Delooz, H.; Broos, P.

Affiliations

¹Major Trauma Outcome Study Leuven, Catholic University of Leuven, University Hospitals, Department of Emergency Medicine and Department of Emergency Surgery and Traumatology

Abstract

Self-reported Functional Independence Measure (FIM) values, one year or more after injury, in multiple injured major trauma patients with a head injury, have been correlated with patients' Injury Impairment Scale (IIS) scores. The response to the postal FIM-questionnaire was 77.1 % (145 patients). There was no demonstrated clinical useful correlation between on the one side the IIS and on the other side mobility and cognitive function, expressed in the FIM.

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