Injury
Volume 38, Issue 1 , Pages 84-90 , January 2007

Scoring of anatomic injury after trauma: AIS 98 versus AIS 90—do the changes affect overall severity assessment?

  • Nils O. Skaga

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, 0407 Oslo, Norway
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +47 22119690; fax: +47 22283245.
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  • Torsten Eken

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Aker University Hospital, Trondheimsveien 235, 0514 Oslo, Norway
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  • Morten Hestnes

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, 0407 Oslo, Norway
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  • J. Mary Jones

      Affiliations

    • Mathematics Department, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK
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  • Petter A. Steen

      Affiliations

    • University of Oslo, University Division UUH, Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, 0407 Oslo, Norway

,Accepted 16 April 2006.

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PII: S0020-1383(06)00303-2

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.04.123

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