The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma grading scale for 16 emergency general surgery conditions: Disease-specific criteria characterizing anatomic severity grading
J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2016 Sep;81(3):593-602.
doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000001127.
1 From the Department of Surgery, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, La Jolla, California (G.T.T.); Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California (K.L.S.); Baylor Scott & White Health System, Dallas, Texas (S.S.); Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut (K.M.S.); Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana (S.A.S.); Department of Surgery, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, Camden, New Jersey (S.R.); Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California (P.M., M.J.C.); Department of Surgery, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina (N.T.M., P.M.); Department of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California (K.I.; Department of Surgery, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida (D.C.); Department of Surgery, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School, Austin, Texas (C.V.R.B.); Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin (S.A.); Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia (M.B.A.); Department of Surgery, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California (G.H.U.); and Department of Surgery, University of Florida Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida (M.C.).