Publication Details

Title	Using the abbreviated injury scale to evaluate head injury mortality risk
Authors	Somers RL
Year	1983
Type	Report
Abstract	A new procedure was developed for quantifying severity of head injury with the Abbreviated Injury Scale. A simple coding scheme and a formula, the Head Injury Probability of Death Score (HIPODS), can be used to compare head-injury severity between trauma groups and to predict group mortality. The HIPODS was derived statistically from a Danish data set; it was validated on two additional data sets, one Danish and one Australian.
Publisher	Road Accident Research Unit
Publisher City	Adelaide
Page Count	20
Notes	available from CASR library on request

Reference

Somers RL (1983). Using the abbreviated injury scale to evaluate head injury mortality risk. Adelaide: Road Accident Research Unit.