Citation

Watterson D, Cleland H, Picton N, Simpson PM, Gabbe BJ. HIM J. 2011; 40(1): 21-24.

Affiliation

department of epidemiology and preventative medicine, monash university, victoria, australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Health Information Management Association of Australia)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

21430305

Abstract

The percentage of total body surface area burnt (%TBSA) is a critical measure of burn injury severity and a key predictor of burn injury outcome. This study evaluated the level of agreement between four sources of %TBSA using 120 cases identified through the Victorian State Trauma Registry. Expert clinician, ICD-10-AM, Abbreviated Injury Scale, and burns registry coding were compared using measures of agreement. There was near-perfect agreement (weighted Kappa statistic 0.81-1) between all sources of data, suggesting that ICD-10-AM is a valid source of %TBSA and use of ICD-10-AM codes could reduce the resource used by trauma and burns registries capturing this information.

Language: en