Most physicians know very little about the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS), the scoring system used to calculate a patient’s Injury Severity Score (ISS). AIS codes…
The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is the international standard tool for documenting injury details and ranking injury severity. If an injury is not in the…
Ongoing data validation is essential to ensuring the quality of a trauma registry. In January’s Q&A column, the trauma registry experts at Pomphrey Consulting clarified…
Data validation is a major challenge for busy trauma registrars and registry managers. What are the most efficient ways to ensure trauma data quality? With…
Changes in the National Trauma Data Standard go into effect on January 1. Registry software vendors will handle much of the transition work, but trauma…