Abbreviated Injury Scale

The first one focuses on the evaluation of passive safety measures and is called the injury shift method. The basic idea is that a passive safety measure has a positive effect on the severity of injuries sustained at a specific component. The assumption is that below 40 kph, optimized components result in a reduction of one level on the abbreviated injury scale (AIS) [50] (for a detailed description of AIS see Sect. 5.1,... 

The first of these issues refers to the choice of a metric to describe the injury scale. In the data sets considered here, pedestrian injuries were originally coded according to the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS), revision 90 [8-10] (for cases 2008 and newer GIDAS also includes AIS coding following the 2005 revision [11-13]). Table 5.1 gives the AIS levels as well as the lethality rate associated with each level. The maximum AIS value (MAIS) of a person is separately coded and serves as an indicator for overall injury severity. 

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