A clinical description of the subject injury(ies) from the medical documentation, as part of Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS). The injury should preferably be described in the Abbreviated Injury Scale code controlled vocabulary terms.

Injury clinical description text

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Baker SP, O'Neill B, Haddon W Jr, et al. The injury severity score: a method for describing patients with multiple injuries and evaluating emergency care. J Trauma. Mar 1974;14(3): 187-196. Medicine Aft. The Abbreviated Injury Scale, 1990 Revision. Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. 15-24. 1990. Des Plaines, IL. http: //www.sfar.org/scores2/triss2.html - ISS calculator Pediatric: Gennarelli TA, Wodzin A. AIS 2005: A contemporary injury scale. Injury 2006 37: 1083-1091. Copyright Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine - https://www.aaam.org/abbreviated-injury-scale-ais/

For each combination of values recorded in AISBodyRegionChapterCat+AISInjurySeverityScore, enter the injury description from the medical documentation. This description is used to code the injury in AIS Code and describes the precise injury. The injury descriptor in AIS code (refer to AISCode CDE) comprises the six digits to the left of the dot; this pre-dot code contains values indicating AIS body region injured captured in AISBodyRegionChapterCat and the rest of information, such as, type of structure injured, specific anatomic structure injured, and level of injury, which should be entered in this DE. The injury is described in the pre-dot vocabulary terms for positions 2-6. Using controlled vocabulary from the corresponding version of AIS dictionary is highly recommended. Refer to AISCode for the corresponding AIS code. Consult the corresponding version of AIS dictionary for legal values.

AISCode pre-dot related text for code positions 2-6