title: The classification of trauma. Lessons leaned in classifying injuries of 1,797 patients from civil disturbances in Northern Ireland, 1969-1971.
abstract: The difficulties of applying the rules of the International Classification of Diseases to trauma cases are discussed on the basis of coding the injuries of 1,797 injured patients from civil disorders in Northern Ireland, 1969-1971. Certain inadequacies of the code are indicated and suggestions made about ways to modify it and make its applications more informative.
mesh_terms: D002960:Civil Disorders; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009660:Northern Ireland; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification*