FIELD APPLICATION AND RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT OF THE ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE

THE ABREVIATED INJURY SCALE (AIS); INTRODUCED IN JANUARY, 1968; HAS BEEN WIDELY USE BY THE MEDICAL ENGINEERING ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION TEAMS OF THE NHTSA, BY THE GENERAL MOTORS ADAP, BY THE NATO COUNTRY TEAMS IN EUROPE, AND BY THE AMA PHYSICIAN-POLICE TEAMS. THE EXPERIENCE AND PROBLEMS IN USE OF THE AIS ARE REVIEWED. AN EXTENDED AND REVISED AIS HAS BEEN DEVELOPED. VALIDATION STUDIES REVEALED BETTER THAN 80% ACCURACY BY MULTIPLE USERS. THE COMPREHENSIVE RESEARCH INJURY SCALE (CRIS) HAS BEEN COMPLETED FOR ALL MAJOR MEDICAL SPECIALTIES. THE CRIS SEPARATES THE VARIOUS CRITERIA (ENERGY DISSIPATION-ED, THREAT TO LIFE-TL, PERMANENT IMPAIRMENT-PI, TREATMENT PERIOD-TP, INCIDENCE-IN) USED WITH VARIABLE QUANTITIES AND FREQUENCIES IN THE AIS. THE CRIS IDENTIFIES AND QUANTITATES EACH SCALING CRITERIA PERMITTING MORE MEANINGFUL AND DETAILED APPLICATION OF THE AIS. /AUTHOR/

• Supplemental Notes:
  • No Sae 710873, 22 PP, FIGS, TABS, REFS
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

  400 Commonwealth Drive
  Warrendale, PA  United States  15096
• Authors:
  • STATES, J D
  • Fenner, H A
  • Flamboe, E E
  • Nelson, W D
  • Hames, L N
• Conference:
  • Stapp Car Crash Conference Proceedings
• Publication Date: 1971

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Classification; Crash investigation; Data analysis; Injuries; Injury severity; Mathematical analysis; Medical examinations and tests
• Identifier Terms: Abbreviated Injury Scale
• Uncontrolled Terms: Criteria; Data; Severity
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00221603
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Highway Safety Research Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 17 1972 12:00AM