DocumentCode
1882921
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
fYear
1989
fDate
9-12 Nov 1989
Firstpage
1912
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.1989.96520
Filename
96520
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