Citation

Eastham JNJ. Proc. Am. Assoc. Automot. Med. Annu. Conf. 1985; 29: 353-363.

Affiliation

University of Maryland Baltimore, Emergency Health Services Department, Catonsville, MD, USA

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

DOI

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Abstract

Ten sets of injuries (involving a total of 25 AIS-80 injury descriptions) were reviewed by physicians involved in trauma care. Each injury set contained two or three descriptions of increasingly severe injury to the same anatomical structure. (e.g., "closed" vs. "open" Colles fractures). Respondents assigned four different estimates of severity to each injury: mortality risk, acute care length of stay, overall recovery period, and permanent/disability activity limitation. Measures of central tendency (means and medians) for these estimates are compared to the AIS scores of the injuries. Results indicate that for two of the severity estimates reviewed (mortality risk and acute care length of stay) higher severity estimates are usually associated with severity qualifiers describing injuries with higher AIS scores. The association is reported with some caution, however, since some severity estimates are found to overlap among injuries with different AIS scores.

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