Citation

Linn S. Stat. Med. 1996; 15(7-9): 933-937.

Affiliation

Department of Epidemiology, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8861162

Abstract

One of the more often used measures of multiple injuries is the injury severity score (ISS). Determination of the ISS is based on the abbreviated injury scale (AIS). This paper suggests a new algorithm to sort the AISs for each case and calculate ISS. The program uses unsorted abbreviated injury scale (AIS) levels for each case and rearranges them in descending order. The first three sorted AISs representing the three most severe injuries of a person are then used to calculate injury severity score (ISS). This algorithm should be useful for analyses of clusters of injuries especially when more patients have multiple injuries.

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