Validation of a modified table to map the 1998 abbreviated injury scale to the 2008 scale and the use of adjusted severities

Background: The Abbreviated Injury Scale 2008 (AIS 2008) is the most recent injury coding system. A mapping table from a previous AIS 98 to AIS 2008 is available. However, AIS 98 codes that are unmappable to AIS 2008 codes exist in this table. Furthermore, some AIS 98 codes can be mapped to multiple...

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Main Authors: Tohira, Hideo, Jacobs, I., Mountain, D., Gibson, N., Yeo, A., Ueno, M., Watanabe, H.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29227
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author Tohira, Hideo
Jacobs, I.
Mountain, D.
Gibson, N.
Yeo, A.
Ueno, M.
Watanabe, H.
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Jacobs, I.
Mountain, D.
Gibson, N.
Yeo, A.
Ueno, M.
Watanabe, H.
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description Background: The Abbreviated Injury Scale 2008 (AIS 2008) is the most recent injury coding system. A mapping table from a previous AIS 98 to AIS 2008 is available. However, AIS 98 codes that are unmappable to AIS 2008 codes exist in this table. Furthermore, some AIS 98 codes can be mapped to multiple candidate AIS 2008 codes with different severities. We aimed to modify the original table to adjust the severities and to validate these changes. Methods: We modified the original table by adding links from unmappable AIS 98 codes to AIS 2008 codes. We applied the original table and our modified table to AIS 98 codes for major trauma patients. We also assigned candidate codes with different severities the weighted averages of their severities as an adjusted severity. The proportion of cases whose injury severity scores (ISSs) were computable were compared. We also compared the agreement of the ISS and New ISS (NISS) between manually determined AIS 2008 codes (MAN) and mapped codes by using our table (MAP) with unadjusted or adjusted severities. Result: All and 72.3% of cases had their ISSs computed by our modified table and the original table, respectively. The agreement between MAN and MAP with respect to the ISS and NISS was substantial (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.939 for ISS and 0.943 for NISS). Using adjusted severities, the agreements of the ISS and NISS improved to 0.953 (p = 0.11) and 0.963 (p = 0.007), respectively. CONCLUSION: Our modified mapping table seems to allow more ISSs to be computed than the original table. Severity scores exhibited substantial agreement between MAN and MAP. The use of adjusted severities improved these agreements further.Copyright © 2011 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-292272017-09-13T15:24:45Z Validation of a modified table to map the 1998 abbreviated injury scale to the 2008 scale and the use of adjusted severities Tohira, Hideo Jacobs, I. Mountain, D. Gibson, N. Yeo, A. Ueno, M. Watanabe, H. Background: The Abbreviated Injury Scale 2008 (AIS 2008) is the most recent injury coding system. A mapping table from a previous AIS 98 to AIS 2008 is available. However, AIS 98 codes that are unmappable to AIS 2008 codes exist in this table. Furthermore, some AIS 98 codes can be mapped to multiple candidate AIS 2008 codes with different severities. We aimed to modify the original table to adjust the severities and to validate these changes. Methods: We modified the original table by adding links from unmappable AIS 98 codes to AIS 2008 codes. We applied the original table and our modified table to AIS 98 codes for major trauma patients. We also assigned candidate codes with different severities the weighted averages of their severities as an adjusted severity. The proportion of cases whose injury severity scores (ISSs) were computable were compared. We also compared the agreement of the ISS and New ISS (NISS) between manually determined AIS 2008 codes (MAN) and mapped codes by using our table (MAP) with unadjusted or adjusted severities. Result: All and 72.3% of cases had their ISSs computed by our modified table and the original table, respectively. The agreement between MAN and MAP with respect to the ISS and NISS was substantial (intraclass correlation coefficient = 0.939 for ISS and 0.943 for NISS). Using adjusted severities, the agreements of the ISS and NISS improved to 0.953 (p = 0.11) and 0.963 (p = 0.007), respectively. CONCLUSION: Our modified mapping table seems to allow more ISSs to be computed than the original table. Severity scores exhibited substantial agreement between MAN and MAP. The use of adjusted severities improved these agreements further.Copyright © 2011 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29227 10.1097/TA.0b013e31823cc5c5 restricted
spellingShingle Tohira, Hideo
Jacobs, I.
Mountain, D.
Gibson, N.
Yeo, A.
Ueno, M.
Watanabe, H.
Validation of a modified table to map the 1998 abbreviated injury scale to the 2008 scale and the use of adjusted severities
title Validation of a modified table to map the 1998 abbreviated injury scale to the 2008 scale and the use of adjusted severities
title_full Validation of a modified table to map the 1998 abbreviated injury scale to the 2008 scale and the use of adjusted severities
title_fullStr Validation of a modified table to map the 1998 abbreviated injury scale to the 2008 scale and the use of adjusted severities
title_full_unstemmed Validation of a modified table to map the 1998 abbreviated injury scale to the 2008 scale and the use of adjusted severities
title_short Validation of a modified table to map the 1998 abbreviated injury scale to the 2008 scale and the use of adjusted severities
title_sort validation of a modified table to map the 1998 abbreviated injury scale to the 2008 scale and the use of adjusted severities
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/29227