Automating the SSIS Score: Ensuring Diagnostic Precision for Crucial Clinical Decisions
1. The Clinical Challenge Determining the status of spinal surgery patients requires the complex calculation of the Spin Surgery Injury Severity (SSIS) Score. This score involves 32 criteria divided into five main categories (Life, Nerve, Bone, Muscle, and Skin) with wide-ranging scores (25 to 400 points per criterion). Performing this calculation manually at the point-of-care […]