Christine Mary Read-Allsopp

Background: Traumatic injury is sudden and unexpected. It may lead to long-standing physical and physiological consequences. Approximately 10% of the world's disease burden is attributable to traumatic injuries. At the commencement of the study, there was limited information regarding civilian trauma patients' recovery following discharge from the...

Objective: This article describes how maps were developed from the clinical modifications of the 9th and 10th revisions of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) to the Abbreviated Injury Scale 2005 Update 2008 (AIS08). The development of the mapping methodology is described, with discussion of the major assumptions used in the process...

Background The problem of serious road injury has not decreased in comparison to the drop in fatal road injuries. Unlike the standard definition adopted for fatal road injuries, serious injury has not been as well defined in Europe. However in 2012 the High Level Group on road safety agreed to the defining of serious injury in EU countries as Maxim...

Many trauma registries have used the Abbreviated Injury Scale 1990 Revision Update 98 (AIS98) to classify injuries. In the current AIS version (Abbreviated Injury Scale 2005 Update 2008 - AIS08), injury classification and specificity differ substantially from AIS98, and the mapping tools provided in the AIS08 dictionary are incomplete. As a result,...

AIS98 codes identified to potentially benefit from free text description evaluation. The reason or reasons for evaluating free text descriptions (where available) are listed for each of the 217 AIS98 codes identified. AIS98 codes are localised to the map (dictionary or complementary) from which AIS08 maps may be obtained. A default AIS08 map is pro...

The complementary map developed to improve AIS98 to AIS08 conversion. One or more AIS08 code maps (as determined by panel) are listed for each of 153 AIS98 codes. The rationale for the likely exclusion of the AIS98 code from the AIS08 dictionary map (as discussed in the paper) is shown. Additional comments for use with free text descriptions are pr...

Weighted and unweighted levels of agreement between AIS codeset pairs, with bias-corrected 95% confidence intervals (CI) and rating.

There is no widely accepted measure of clinical documentation quality in the ED. The present study creates a measure for comparing the quality of clinical documentation of external injuries with autopsy reports. This is used to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of introducing routine photography to improve clinical documentation of injuries....

Trauma systems rely on accurate Injury Severity Scoring (ISS) to describe trauma patient populations. Twenty-seven (27) Trauma Nurse Coordinators and Data Managers across the state of New South Wales, Australia trauma network were instructed in the uses and techniques of the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) from the Association for the Advancement of...