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Abbreviated Injury Scale MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


MeSH Heading
Abbreviated Injury Scale
Tree Number(s)
E05.318.308.940.968.875.125
E05.944.250
N04.452.859.564.800.125
N05.715.360.300.715.500.800.100
Unique ID
D015998
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015998
Scope Note
Classification system for assessing impact injury severity developed and published by the American Association for Automotive Medicine. It is the system of choice for coding single injuries and is the foundation for methods assessing multiple injuries or for assessing cumulative effects of more than one injury. These include Maximum AIS (MAIS), Injury Severity Score (ISS), and Probability of Death Score (PODS).
Entry Version
ABBREVIATED INJ SCALE
Previous Indexing
Wounds and Injuries/classification (1966-1989)
Public MeSH Note
91; was see under TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES 1990
History Note
91(90); was see under TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES 1990
Date Established
1991/01/01
Date of Entry
1989/05/25
Revision Date
2017/06/30

No Qualifiers
Abbreviated Injury Scale Preferred
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