title: Level of agreement between coding sources of percentage total body surface area burnt (%TBSA).
abstract: The percentage of total body surface area burnt (%TBSA) is a critical measure of burn injury severity and a key predictor of burn injury outcome. This study evaluated the level of agreement between four sources of %TBSA using 120 cases identified through the Victorian State Trauma Registry. Expert clinician, ICD-10-AM, Abbreviated Injury Scale, and burns registry coding were compared using measures of agreement. There was near-perfect agreement (weighted Kappa statistic 0.81-1) between all sources of data, suggesting that ICD-10-AM is a valid source of %TBSA and use of ICD-10-AM codes could reduce the resource used by trauma and burns registries capturing this information.
authors: Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, The Alfred Centre, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia. Dina.Watterson@monash.edu
authors: Dina
authors: D
authors: Watterson
authors: Heather
authors: H
authors: Cleland
authors: Natalie
authors: N
authors: Picton
authors: Pam M
authors: PM
authors: Simpson
authors: Belinda J
authors: BJ
authors: Gabbe
mesh_terms: D001830:Body Surface Area; D002053:Burn Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002056:Burns / Q000145:classification*; D059019:Clinical Coding / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D038801:International Classification of Diseases / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D015599:Trauma Severity Indices; D014739:Victoria