The 2-day course is designed for registrars, trauma nurse coordinator / program manager, physicians, hospital records personnel and researchers or engineers who are responsible for injury databases. (Participants should have general knowledge of anatomy.)

 

Topics covered: A brief history of injury scaling methods: the Abbreviated Injury Scale, uses; coding rules and conventions; methods for assessing the multiple injury patients. The course, which includes approximately 14 hours of classroom work, is divided into lectures and work sessions in which actual hospital charts are used for coding exercises. The course does not teach how to use the ICD. It is designed for those relatively new to AIS coding.

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