Title :
A computerized approach to injury description
Author :
Reddy, Gunarlen ; Fletcher, Donald ; Osler, Turner
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Surg., New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
A system of injury description that requires only moments to capture the fineness of detail needed to encode millions of injuries and their associated surgical interventions is described. The system, implemented on a microcomputer, requires no specialized training to use and is easily searched. It also allows for the automatic generation of AIS (abbreviated injury score) codes for injuries and CPT codes for the operations performed. The system is easily included in a broader database of information about the hospitalization of trauma patients
Keywords :
medical administrative data processing; abbreviated injury score; information database; microcomputer system; surgical interventions; trauma patients hospitalization; Blood; Body regions; Computer peripherals; Databases; Humans; Injuries; Microcomputers; Surgery; Surges; Vocabulary;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1989. Images of the Twenty-First Century., Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96520
