The Ocular Trauma Score (OTS).
Only based on a standardized terminology of ocular trauma terms, and using a very large number of injuries treated by a wide variety of ophthalmologists, could a reliable method be developed so that the functional outcome of a serious eye injury can be predicted with reasonable certainty. The authors used the databases of the United States and Hungarian Eye Injury Registries and, with a grant from the National Center for Injury Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, designed such a system.
Kuhn
Ferenc
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United States Eye Injury Registry, Helen Keller Foundation for Research and Education, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. fkuhn@mindspring.com
Maisiak
Richard
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Mann
LoRetta
L
Mester
Viktória
V
Morris
Robert
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Witherspoon
C Douglas
CD
D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices