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Subsequently, these factors shall be used to develop an easy-to-use scoring system, deployable directly in the emergency setting. Materials and Methods: This study evaluates all severely injured patients with an Injury Severity Score (ISS) \u2265 16 admitted to the emergency departments of two German university hospitals between 2016 and 2020. These patients were retrospectively scanned for injuries of the thoracic and\/or lumbar spine and\/or the pelvic girdle. Demographic data was analyzed alongside trauma mechanism, type of injuries, mortality, length of hospital stays, surgeries, laboratory results, and urological treatment. Subgroup analysis was performed to compare patients with and without GUIs using t-tests. Conducting a binary logistic regression model, the significant factors were combined to create a scoring system, which was further analyzed for accuracy. Results: In total, 413 patients with an average ISS of 33.8 \u00b1 15.0 were identified, and 47 patients (11.4%) sustained urogenital injuries with an average Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) score of 2.3 \u00b1 1.1 (range: 1\u20135). The severity of the pelvic girdle injury correlated with the presence of urogenital injuries (p = 0.002), while there was no correlation with spinal injuries. Moreover, most GUIs resulted from motorcycle accidents (p &lt; 0.001) and 87.2% of these patients were male. Patients with GUI were significantly more likely to show macrohematuria (p &lt; 0.001) on admission and were more severely injured overall (ISS &gt; 34). There was no significant difference in the length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay, the days until discharge, or death rates. Conclusions: Factors or circumstances which reliably predict the presence of GUI were found to include the male sex, a motorcycle accident, high severity of pelvic girdle fractures, macrohematuria on admission to the emergency department, and an ISS &gt; 34. With these findings, we introduce the \u2018Urotrauma in Polytrauma patients with Pelvic and\/or Spinal injuries\u2019 (UPPS) score for easier prediction of GUI in the emergency setting.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina58111583","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,3]],"date-time":"2022-11-03T03:53:07Z","timestamp":1667447587000},"page":"1583","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Positive Predictive Factors for Urogenital Injuries in Severely Injured Patients with Pelvic and Spinal Fractures: Introducing the UPPS Scoring System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"58","author":[{"given":"Olivia Anna","family":"Mair","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Trauma Surgery, Technical University of Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaninger Strasse 22, 81675 Munich, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8816-0786","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maren","family":"Himmler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Urology and Urological Surgery, University Medical Center Mannheim, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167 Mannheim, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Suna","family":"Brunnemer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Mannheim, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167 Mannheim, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christoph","family":"Faymonville","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Trauma Surgery, University Medical Center Mannheim, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167 Mannheim, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Patrick","family":"Honeck","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Urology and Urological Surgery, University Medical Center Mannheim, Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, 68167 Mannheim, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2133-9647","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thomas","family":"Horn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Urology, Technical University of Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaninger Strasse 22, 81675 Munich, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Peter","family":"Biberthaler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Trauma Surgery, Technical University of Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaninger Strasse 22, 81675 Munich, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2683-9870","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marc","family":"Hanschen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Trauma Surgery, Technical University of Munich, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Ismaninger Strasse 22, 81675 Munich, Germany"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Mortality in the United States, 2019","volume":"427","author":"Kochanek","year":"2020","journal-title":"NCHS Data Brief"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e017571","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2017-017571","article-title":"Assessment of patient-reported outcomes after polytrauma: Protocol for a systematic review","volume":"8","author":"Gnass","year":"2018","journal-title":"BMJ Open"},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"54","DOI":"10.1186\/s13017-019-0274-x","article-title":"Kidney and uro-trauma: WSES-AAST guidelines","volume":"14","author":"Coccolini","year":"2019","journal-title":"World J. 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