Automating Injury Severity Score Calculation From Free-Text Discharge Diagnoses Using Domain-Specific Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models: Retrospective Validation Study.
BACKGROUND Trauma registries are crucial for evaluating the prognosis of injuries and the quality of trauma care. However, the calculation of Injury Severity Score (ISS) remains a predominantly manual process, which is labor-intensive, potentially error-prone, and difficult to scale. Automating this process is a critic...