Comparison of injury severity scores derived from ICD-10-AM codes with trauma registry derived scores: a study from New Zealand - Montoya L, Davie G, Lilley R, Dicker B, Kool B.

INTRODUCTION: Various attempts at automation have been made to reduce the administrative burden of manually assigning Abbreviated Injury Severity (AIS) codes to derive Injury Severity Scores (ISS) in trauma registry data. The accuracy of the resulting meas...
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