title: Establishing inter-rater reliability scoring in a state trauma system.
abstract: Trauma systems rely on accurate Injury Severity Scoring (ISS) to describe trauma patient populations. Twenty-seven (27) Trauma Nurse Coordinators and Data Managers across the state of New South Wales, Australia trauma network were instructed in the uses and techniques of the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) from the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. The aim is to provide accurate, reliable and valid data for the state trauma network. Four (4) months after the course a coding exercise was conducted to assess inter-rater reliability. The results show that inter-rater reliability is with accepted international standards.
authors.affiliation: NSW Institute of Trauma and Injury Management, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Read-Allsopp
mesh_terms: D015998:Abbreviated Injury Scale; D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards*; D000047:Academies and Institutes / Q000458:organization & administration; D004014:Dictionaries as Topic; D005544:Forecasting; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000592:standards; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009517:New South Wales / Q000453:epidemiology; D015588:Observer Variation; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012042:Registries / Q000592:standards*; D014193:Trauma Centers / Q000458:organization & administration; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D014194:Traumatology / Q000458:organization & administration; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology