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Improving the sensitivity and specificity of the abbreviated injury scale coding system.
  • Published Date:
    1990 Jul-Aug
  • Source:
    Public Health Rep. 105(4):334-340
  • Language:
    English
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  • Pubmed ID:
    2116633
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    PMCnull
  • Description:
    The Abbreviated Injury Scale with Epidemiologic Modifications (AIS 85-EM) was developed to make it possible to code information about anatomic injury types and locations that, although generally available from medical records, is not codable under the standard Abbreviated Injury Scale, published by the American Association for Automotive Medicine in 1985 (AIS 85). In a population-based sample of 3,223 motor vehicle trauma cases, 68 percent of the patients had one or more injuries that were coded to the AIS 85 body region nonspecific category external. When the same patients' injuries were coded using the AIS 85-EM coding procedure, only 15 percent of the patients had injuries that could not be coded to a specific body region. With AIS 85-EM, the proportion of codable head injury cases increased from 16 percent to 37 percent, thereby improving the potential for identifying cases with head and threshold brain injury. The data suggest that body region coding of all injuries is necessary to draw valid and reliable conclusions about changes in injury patterns and their sequelae. The increased specificity of body region coding improves assessments of the efficacy of injury intervention strategies and countermeasure programs using epidemiologic methodology.

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      Personal Author:
      Wright, J C
      Published:
      1990 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(4):420-424
      Description:
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      Source:
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      Description:
      Trends in age- and sex-specific mortality rates for all causes of death for Indians in Minnesota during the years 1960-79 were examined using the Mantel-Haenszel chi-square extension test. Indians younger than 15 years of age were not included in the...
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      Description:
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      Source:
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      In an investigation of the prevalence of safety packaging of medications, 131 randomly selected Minneapolis and St. Paul households with children were surveyed in 1985. Of the 1,953 oral medications in these households (mean was 14.9 per home), 43.3 ...
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      Source:
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      Description:
      This cross-sectional survey was undertaken to examine whether the homeless poor have a higher prevalence of risk factors for ill health than the nonhomeless poor. Seventy-one adults in four age groups who attended a free-meal program in northern Cali...
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      Personal Author:
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      Published:
      1990 Jul-Aug
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      Description:
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      Personal Author:
      Carter-Pokras, O; Pirkle, J; Chavez, G; Gunter, E;
      Published:
      1990 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(4):388-393
      Description:
      Data from the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey were used to estimate arithmetic mean blood lead and percent with elevated blood lead [25 micrograms per deciliter (micrograms per dl) or greater] for 4-11-year-old Mexican American, Puer...
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      Personal Author:
      Percy, C; Ries, L G; Van Holten, V D;
      Published:
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      Source:
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      Description:
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      Personal Author:
      Henderson, W G; Eisen, S; Goldberg, J; True, W R; Barnes, J E; Vitek, M E;
      Published:
      1990 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(4):368-373
      Description:
      The Vietnam Era Twin Registry consists of 4,774 male-male twin pairs born between 1939 and 1957 with both brothers having served in the United States military during the Vietnam War. The registry was originally developed to provide the best control g...
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      Personal Author:
      Lindan, C P; Hearst, N; Singleton, J A; Trachtenberg, A I; Riordan, N M; Tokagawa, D A; Chu, G S;
      Published:
      1990 Jul-Aug
      Source:
      Public Health Rep. 105(4):400-404
      Description:
      A disproportionately high number of AIDS cases in the United States involve members of racial minorities. Even so, AIDS deaths of minority members may be undercounted. The completeness of reporting of AIDS deaths to the California AIDS Registry (ARS)...
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      Published:
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      Source:
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      Description:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published:
      1990 Jul-Aug
      Source:
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      Description:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published:
      1990 Jul-Aug
      Source:
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      Description:
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      Personal Author:
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      Published:
      1990 Jul-Aug
      Source:
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      Description:
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      Published:
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      Source:
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      Description:
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      Personal Author:
      Viano, D C
      Conference Author:
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      Published:
      1990 Jul-Aug
      Source:
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      Description:
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      Published:
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      Source:
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