Correlation of Revised Trauma Score with Mortality Rate of Traumatic Patients within the First 24 hours of Hospitalization

Background: trauma is a major health problem throughout the world, leading to death and disability especially in the first four decades of victims’ life. in iran also, accident-related death has a critical situation with an increasing rate of 10-15% per year. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between revised trauma score and mortality rate of traumatic patients within the first 24 h of hospitalization.materials and methods: a prospective cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate the association between revised trauma score and the mortality rate of traumatic patients within the first 24 h of hospitalization on 240 traumatic patients admitted to khatam al-anbia hospital. the obtained data were analyzed with spss software-15, using logistic regression, chi-square, and descriptive statistics.results: seventy four point tow percent of patients were referred due to accident, of which 38.3% had multiple traumas. fifty point eight percent of traumatic patients died within the first 24 h of hospitalization. the minimum and maximum revised trauma score in injured patients were 7 and 12, respectively. also, 80% of mortality was seen in victims with a score of 9-10. both the ?2 test and logistic regression showed a significant relationship between the first revised trauma score and the mortality rate of traumatic patients within the first 24 h of hospitalization (p=0.001).conclusion: the results of this study indicate that the revised trauma score can be used as a tool to predict the mortality rate of traumatic patients.