TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1994//
TI  - A Comparison of Injury Impairment Scale Scores and Physician's Estimates of Impairment Following Injury to the Head, Abdomen and Lower Limbs
JO  - Annual proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
A1  - Yates, David W.
A1  - Woodford, Maralyn
A1  - Campbell, Fiona
SP  - 139
EP  - 148
VL  - 38
IS  - 
N2  - Clinicians' estimates of expected impairment resulting from 7,502 single injuries to head, abdomen and lower limb have been compared with corresponding Injury Impairment Scale scores. 33.4% were expected to make a full recovery, 62.4% to have a temporary impairment and 4.2% a permanent impairment. IIS scores were 0 (40.1%), 1 (46.9%), 2 (8.5%), greater than 2 (4.5%). There were strong correlations between physicians' estimates of impairment severity and IIS globally, for specific injuries and for age 25-40. These results do not validate the IIS but do suggest that it will have credibility with practicing trauma clinicians.     <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1540-0360
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -