Comparison of injury severity scores derived from ICD-10-AM codes with trauma registry derived scores: a study from New Zealand

Trauma registries play a key role in trauma systems, providing useful information on patterns of injury and outcomes, monitoring of the quality of care, and informing injury prevention and control actions [1]. Injury severity is an important measure in trauma research, with the Injury Severity Score (ISS) one of the most commonly used indices [2]. The ISS is an anatomically based score used to rate the overall severity of multiple injuries, and is calculated using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) [3].
Source: Injury - Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Source Type: research