Combat injury coding: A review and reconfiguration

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 573-581

  Lawnick, Mary M ^a   Champion, Howard R ^a,b   Gennarelli, Thomas ^c   Galarneau, Michael R ^d   D'Souza, Edwin ^d   Vickers, Ross R ^d   Wing, Vern ^d   Eastridge, Brian J ^e   Young, Lee Ann ^h   Dye, Judy ^d   Spott, Mary Ann ^f   Jenkins, Donald H ⁱ   Holcomb, John ^e   Blackbourne, Lorne H ^f   Ficke, James R ^g   Kalin, Ellen J ^a   Flaherty, Stephen ^j  

^a SimQuest Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^f US Army Institute of Surgical Research   (United States)

^g BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATES   (United States)

ⁱ MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^j WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

Combat; impairment; injury severity scoring; trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AVULSION INJURY; BATTLE INJURY; BLAST INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BURN; CALIBRATION; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONCUSSION; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FACE VALIDITY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MILITARY COMBAT INJURY SCALE; MILITARY FUNCTIONAL INCAPACITY SCALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT CODING; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIB FRACTURE; SOFT TISSUE INJURY;

BLAST INJURIES; CLINICAL CODING; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 84885351578     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182a53bc6     Document Type: Review

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