Injury Severity Score coding: Data analyst v. emerging m-health technology
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Injury Severity Score coding: Data analyst v. emerging m-health technology.
BACKGROUND The cost of Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) coding has limited its utility in areas of the world with the highest incidence of trauma. We hypothesised that emerging mobile health (m-health) technology could offer a cost-effective alternative to the current gold-standard AIS mechanism in a high-volume trauma centre in South Africa. METHODS A prospectively collected sample of consecut...
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عنوان ژورنال: South African Medical Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2078-5135
DOI: 10.7196/samj.2016.v106i10.10597