Special Training in Injury Coding

摘要

This report presents the background concerning and discusses the training materials developed under this contract in support of the National Accident Sampling System (NASS). Materials developed are aimed at improving the quality of injury coding by NASS investigators. The injury coding process is conceptually divided into five major substantive tasks and one appreciative task. Course materials were developed for tasks one through three. The instruction takes the investigator from encountering injury data in its natural context to being able to list encoded descriptions of injury in accordance with the Occupant Injury Classification (OIC) system and Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) protocols on the appropriate NASS forms.