The International Classification of Disease Critical Care Severity Score Demonstrates that Pediatric Burden of Injury is Similar to that of Adults: Validation Using the National Trauma Databank

Validation study using 5.87 million trauma patients demonstrating that the ICD Critical Care Severity Score (ICASS) accurately predicts critical care resource utilization and reveals pediatric injury burden comparable to adults. This resource-based scoring system may better characterize trauma severity than traditional mortality-based measures like ICISS.