Abbreviated Injury Scale

Introduction: Abbreviated Injury Scale

Description of Abbreviated Injury Scale

Abbreviated Injury Scale: Classification system for assessing impact injury severity developed and published by the American Association for Automotive Medicine. It is the system of choice for coding single injuries and is the foundation for methods assessing multiple injuries or for assessing cumulative effects of more than one injury. These include Maximum AIS (MAIS), Injury Severity Score (ISS), and Probability of Death Score (PODS).
Source: MeSH 2007

Abbreviated Injury Scale: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Abbreviated Injury Scale:

• Injury
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Hierarchical classifications of Abbreviated Injury Scale

The following list attempts to classify Abbreviated Injury Scale into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Investigative Techniques
  • Epidemiologic Methods
    • Data Collection
      • Records
        • Medical Records
          • Trauma Severity Indices
            • Abbreviated Injury Scale

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Investigative Techniques
  • Trauma Severity Indices
    • Abbreviated Injury Scale

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Information Science
  • Data Collection
    • Records
      • Medical Records
        • Trauma Severity Indices
          • Abbreviated Injury Scale

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Health Services Administration
  • Organization and Administration
    • Records
      • Medical Records
        • Trauma Severity Indices
          • Abbreviated Injury Scale

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy

• Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
  • Quality of Health Care
    • Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms
      • Data Collection
        • Records
          • Medical Records
            • Trauma Severity Indices
              • Abbreviated Injury Scale

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