title: The Ocular Trauma Score (OTS).
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Ferenc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kuhn
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maisiak
authors.forename: LoRetta
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mann
authors.forename: Viktória
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mester
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: C Douglas
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Witherspoon
mesh_terms: D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices