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Trauma Registry Q&A: “How do we code VTE prophylaxis?”

The 2019 update of the National Trauma Data Standard (NTDS) Data Dictionary includes several changes to venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis type. In this month’s column,…

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15 things trauma physicians should know about AIS coding

Most physicians know very little about the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS), the scoring system used to calculate a patient’s Injury Severity Score (ISS). AIS codes…

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5 problematic injuries that can be coded accurately with AIS 2015

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…

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Trauma Registry Q&A: “How can we use registry reports to perform data validation?”

Ongoing data validation is essential to ensuring the quality of a trauma registry. In January’s Q&A column, the trauma registry experts at Pomphrey Consulting clarified…

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Trauma Registry Q&A: “What does the ACS expect regarding data validation?”

Data validation is a major challenge for busy trauma registrars and registry managers. What are the most efficient ways to ensure trauma data quality? With…