TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Level of agreement between coding source of percentage total body surface area burnt (%TBSA)
JO  - HIM journal, The
A1  - Watterson, Dina
A1  - Cleland, Heather
A1  - Picton, Natalie
A1  - Simpson, Pam M.
A1  - Gabbe, Belinda J.
SP  - 21
EP  - 24
VL  - 40
IS  - 1
N2  - 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1833-3583
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -