The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is an anatomy-based coding system created to classify and describe the severity of injuries. It represents an assessment of the severity of injury including the threat to life associated with the injury. AIS is one of the most common anatomic scales for traumatic injuries. AIS consists of a single coding
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The ICD-9-CM to AIS08 and ICD-10-CM to AIS08 electronic translators is available from AAAM. See ICDMap FAQ for more information.
AAAM operates an in-depth AIS educational program – it is available across the globe to provide in-person training for classroom use as well as Internet-based classes.
Digital versions of AIS are available on the AAAM web site. Coming Soon.
AIS 2008 is available in the four languages (English, Japanese, French and Spanish) in print. The latest version, AIS 2015, is only available in English. For non-English versions or language requests, please contact AAAM US office in Chicago.
AAAM is able to grant licenses to companies/organizations for the right to use AIS for commercial, non-commercial/research and internal purposes.
No modification of AIS is endorsed by AAAM; AAAM is not responsible for any external modification of the dictionary. AAAM does not license the AIS dictionary for modification.
No organization or agency outside of AAAM can issue AIS licenses to suppliers to the public or non-public sector. If you intend to sell your product that contains AIS copyrighted material, then you will require a license from AAAM.
The ICDMaps can be purchased at the AAAM online store.
To a large extent, the ICD to AIS mapping is validated by design, since it was constructed using expert coders and faculty members of AIS as well as members that have extensive ICD experience. During development, it was thoroughly analyzed and tested by the technical mapping group. From this perspective, the AAAM developed map is
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