Citation

Walz FH, Langwieder K. Proc. Int. Tech. Conf. Enhanced Safety Vehicles 1993; 1993: 162-180.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, In public domain, Publisher National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)

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Abstract

This paper presents a proposal for a reduced procedure of AIS-coding on the basis of the original American version "The Abbreviated Injury Scale, 1990 Revision". The study compares the simplified version of AIS 90 with the full version. An important characteristic of the simplified scale is the reduction of its entries to a fifth of the full version. The purpose of the study was to attempt a raw estimate of the trade-off in terms of: (1) information loss, and (2) the differences between the two scales computing the injury severity score (ISS). Options to counter the information loss are briefly referred to. An in-depth analysis of the errors committed furnished an insight into a possible methodology investigating fallacies while working with either scale. The apparent small differences in severity outcome classifying the individual injury using the simplified scale would seem to constitute an acceptable trade-off. The study also shows that inter-rater differences have been larger.