The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is the international standard tool for documenting injury details and ranking injury severity. If an injury is not in the AIS dictionary, it cannot be coded. Unfortunately, this is becoming a real problem for many trauma registrars and researchers. Here’s the issue: As their understanding of trauma improves, trauma data…
Author: Kathryn Loftis
Amy Brammer, Kathryn Loftis, Sara B. Heltzel
Kathryn Loftis, PhD, CAISS, is a biomedical engineering researcher and faculty trainer for the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine.