The impact of injury severity and age on short-and long-term mortality and hospital length of stay after surgical stabilisation of rib fractures (SSRF): a German population-based propensity-score matched investigation

Overall, the data shows that SSRF can lead to reduced mortality in appropriately selected patients. Based on this real-world data, patients across all age-groups with high but not extreme injury severity (ISS 16-24), in other words patients in whom the thoracic injury is a major component of overall injury severity, appear to benefit most.