title: Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology (BETT): terminology and classification of mechanical eye injuries.
abstract: Lacking a standardized terminology of eye injury types, it is impossible to fulfill a very basic requirement in medicine: that all communications be unambiguous. Accurate interpretation of published research results, which plays an absolutely crucial role in determining how an individual patient with an eye injury is treated, becomes difficult. This article presents an internationally standardized system that finally allows accurate description of eye injuries of all types.
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: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Morris
authors.forename: C Douglas
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Witherspoon
mesh_terms: D000407:Alabama; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000145:classification*; D006801:Humans; D009626:Terminology as Topic