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).

Year introduced: 1991(1990)

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Tree Number(s): E05.318.308.940.968.875.125, E05.944.250, N04.452.859.564.800.125, N05.715.360.300.715.500.800.100

MeSH Unique ID: D015998

Entry Terms:

• Abbreviated Injury Scales
• Injury Scale, Abbreviated
• Injury Scales, Abbreviated
• Scale, Abbreviated Injury
• Scales, Abbreviated Injury

Previous Indexing:

• Wounds and Injuries/classification (1966-1989)

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Category
Investigative Techniques
Epidemiologic Methods
Data Collection
Records
Medical Records
Trauma Severity Indices
Abbreviated Injury Scale

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Category
Investigative Techniques
Trauma Severity Indices
Abbreviated Injury Scale

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

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Health Care Category
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